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Drug-induced parkinsonism (DIP) is a frequent parkinsonian syndrome that appears as a result of pharmacotherapy for the management of psychosis. It could substantially hamper treatment and therefore its diagnosis has a direct influence on treatment effectiveness. Although of such high importance, there is a lack of systematic research for developing neuroimaging-based criteria for DIP diagnostics for such patients. Therefore, the current study was aimed at applying a metabolic brain imaging approach using the 18F-FDG positron emission tomography and spatial covariance analysis to reveal possible candidates for DIP markers. As a result, we demonstrated, to our knowledge, the first attempt at the application of the Parkinson's Disease-Related Pattern (PDRP) as a metabolic signature of parkinsonism for the assessment of PDRP expression for schizophrenia patients with DIP. As a result, we observed significant differences in PDRP expression between the control group and the groups with PD and DIP patients. Similar differences in PDRP expression were also found when the non-DIP schizophrenia patients were compared with the PD group. Therefore, our findings made it possible to conclude that PDRP is a promising tool for the development of clinically relevant criteria for the estimation of the risk of developing DIP.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 74 |
Journal | Diagnostics |
Volume | 13 |
Issue number | 1 |
Early online date | 27 Dec 2022 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2023 |
ID: 101403987