The role of cortical nicotinic receptors in pathological brain oscillations in Parkinson's disease cognitive impairment

皮质烟碱受体在帕金森病认知障碍病理性脑振荡中的作用

• 批准号: 10666717
• 负责人: Kelly Alexander Mills
• 金额: $ 24.56万
• 依托单位: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-02-15 至 2025-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10666717
• 关键词: Affect; Affinity; Age; Animals; Anterior; Area; Attention; Basal Ganglia; Binding; Biological Markers; Brain; Brain region; Characteristics; Chemistry; Cholinergic Receptors; Cognition; Cognitive deficits; Coupling; Data; Deep Brain Stimulation; Dementia; Denervation; Development; Disease; Dopamine; Electrodes; Electrophysiology (science); Etiology; Frequencies; Functional disorder; Future; Generations; Healthcare; Hippocampus; Image; Impaired cognition; Intervention; Left; Ligands; Link; Maps; Measures; Mediating; Memory; Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award; Movement; Neurobiology; Neurotransmitters; Nicotinic Receptors; Noise; Operative Surgical Procedures; Parietal; Parietal Lobe; Parkinson Disease; Parkinsonian Disorders; Pathologic; Patients; Pattern; Perception; Persons; Pharmacotherapy; Phase; Positron-Emission Tomography; Prefrontal Cortex; Principal Investigator; Problem Solving; Quality of life; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Rest; Role; Severities; Short-Term Memory; Signal Transduction; Structure; Structure of subthalamic nucleus; Symptoms; System; Tremor; United States; Visuospatial; brain abnormalities; cholinergic; cingulate cortex; cognitive control; cognitive function; cognitive impairment in Parkinson' s; cognitive testing; disability; executive function; improved; inattention; insight; intervention effect; molecular imaging; motor symptom; network dysfunction; neurophysiology; neuroregulation; pharmacologic; radioligand; radiotracer; receptor; temporal measurement; trend

7. PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease (PD) drives substantial disability and US healthcare spending, yet further understanding of the multiple possible mechanisms is needed in order to develop treatments. Cognitive deficits in PD are associated with cholinergic denervation mediated through regional α4β2 nicotinic cholinergic receptor (α4β2-nAChR) binding changes. Animal evidence implicates the same receptors in the generation of brain oscillations that are a mechanism of normal brain function. Abnormal oscillations in the β band or phase- amplitude coupling (PAC) between β and γ frequencies correlate with motor symptoms in PD. Abnormal oscillations also exist in brain regions and networks associated with cognitive functions. Our overall objective of this exploratory R21 is to understand the relationship between α4β2-nAChR signaling and pathological brain oscillations in regions involved in cognitive impairment in PD. With converging evidence for the role of α4β2- nAChR's in PD-related cognitive dysfunction and slow oscillations, we hypothesize that defective signaling through α4β2-nAChR's is related to pathological oscillations and oscillation coupling and is one mechanism of cognitive impairment in PD. The proposed study combines cognitive testing, molecular imaging of α4β2- nAChR's with a unique radioligand ([18F]XTRA) with good signal-to-noise characteristics for imaging cortical and hippocampal regions, and intracranial recordings from STN and subdural electrodes over cortical regions known to a) be involved in the cognitive deficits seen in PD, b) have elevated β oscillation power in PD, and c) show abnormal α4β2-nAChR availability in PD. Aim 1 is to determine whether α4β2-nAChR availability in persons with PD positively correlates with the cortical β power or β-γ phase-amplitude coupling and STN- cortex coherence as measured by intracranial recordings over regions involved in cognition during deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery. We hypothesize: 1) Higher α4β2-nAChR availability (BPND) in the left DLPFC and right parietal cortex will be associated with higher β power and β-γ PAC recorded via a subdural electrode strip in these regions at rest, adjusting for age; and 2) Higher α4β2-nAChR availability will be associated with greater subthalamic nucleus (STN) β power locally and β phase coherence with the left DLPFC and right parietal cortex, regions associated with cognitive dysfunction in PD. Aim 2 is to evaluate whether α4β2-nAChR availability and β band power or β-γ phase-amplitude coupling over the DLPFC and parietal cortices are associated with executive and visuospatial dysfunction in PD, where we hypothesize: 1) Higher α4β2-nAChR availability and LFP β band power and/or β-γ PAC in the left DLPFC will correlate with worse problem-solving, working memory, and set-shifting, and in the right parietal cortex, with worse visuospatial perception, and 2) Higher associative STN LFP β band power and α4β2-nAChR availability will correlate with deficits in attention. This study would generate a neurophysiologic biomarker and inform development of both pharmacologic and neuromodulation treatments for cognitive impairment in PD.

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