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A non-invasive olfactory bulb measure dissociates Parkinson's patients from healthy controls and discloses disease duration
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Psychology, Perception and psychophysics.
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Number of Authors: 52021 (English)In: npj Parkinson's Disease, E-ISSN 2373-8057, Vol. 7, no 1, article id 75Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Olfactory dysfunction is a prevalent non-motor symptom of Parkinson’s disease (PD). This dysfunction is a result of neurodegeneration within the olfactory bulb (OB), the first processing area of the central olfactory system, and commonly precedes the characteristic motor symptoms in PD by several years. Functional measurements of the OB could therefore potentially be used as an early biomarker for PD. Here, we used a non-invasive method, so-called electrobulbogram (EBG), to measure OB function in PD and age-matched healthy controls to assess whether EBG measures can dissociate PDs from controls. We estimated the spectrogram of the EBG signal during exposure to odor in PD (n = 20) and age-matched controls (n = 18) as well as identified differentiating patterns of odor-related synchronization in the gamma, beta, and theta frequency bands. Moreover, we assessed if these PD-EBG components could dissociate PD from control as well as their relationship with PD characteristics. We identified six EBG components during the initial and later stages of odor processing which dissociated PD from controls with 90% sensitivity and 100% specificity with links to PD characteristics. These PD-EBG components were related to medication, disease duration, and severity, as well as clinical odor identification performance. These findings support using EBG as a tool to experimentally assess PD interventions, potentially aid diagnosis, and the potential development of EBG into an early biomarker for PD.

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2021. Vol. 7, no 1, article id 75
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diagnostic markers, Parkinson's disease, olfactory dysfunction
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-198447DOI: 10.1038/s41531-021-00220-8ISI: 000686710400001PubMedID: 34408159OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-198447DiVA, id: diva2:1609763
Available from: 2021-11-09 Created: 2021-11-09 Last updated: 2024-08-30Bibliographically approved

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