Short-Latency Afferent Inhibition Correlates with Stage of Disease in Parkinson's Patients.
Supriyo ChoudhuryUmmatul SiddiqueSimin RahmanYogesh KumarSattwika BanerjeeMark R BakerStuart N BakerHrishikesh KumarPublished in: The Canadian journal of neurological sciences. Le journal canadien des sciences neurologiques (2022)
Cortical sensory-motor integration is progressively diminished as disease progresses. The observation that a reduction in SAI is associated with a reduction in cognitive function possibly reflects the progressive involvement of cortical cholinergic circuits in PD with increasing motor stage. Future longitudinal studies are necessary to confirm this preliminary result.