{"id":15699,"date":"2013-10-08T09:35:12","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T13:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/?p=15699"},"modified":"2013-10-08T13:59:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T17:59:45","slug":"mild-cognitive-impairment-in-parkinsons-disease-may-be-linked-with-extensive-neurodegeneration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2013\/10\/mild-cognitive-impairment-in-parkinsons-disease-may-be-linked-with-extensive-neurodegeneration\/","title":{"rendered":"Mild cognitive impairment in Parkinsons disease may be linked with extensive neurodegeneration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the University of Montreal media release:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/schizophrenia-memory-loss-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15339\" alt=\"memory loss\" src=\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/schizophrenia-memory-loss-2.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a>Researchers at the University of Montreal and the Institut universitaire de g\u00e9ratrie de Montr\u00e9al <strong>examined brain changes over 20 months in Parkinson&#8217;s patients with and without mild cognitive impairment<\/strong> (MCI) at the early stages of the disease.<\/p>\n<p>Results showed that patients with MCI had significantly more cortical thinning and subcortical atrophy over time compared with patients without MCI, suggesting that <strong>early MCI in PD patients may indicate faster neurodegeneration<\/strong>. The specific pattern observed might serve as a marker for the prediction of dementia in PD in the future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The study was led by Alexandru Hanganu and Oury Monchi. Hanganu presented his findings on October 2, 2013 at the World Parkinson Congress in Montreal.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the University of Montreal media release: Researchers at the University of Montreal and the Institut universitaire de g\u00e9ratrie de Montr\u00e9al examined brain changes over 20 months in Parkinson&#8217;s patients&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2013\/10\/mild-cognitive-impairment-in-parkinsons-disease-may-be-linked-with-extensive-neurodegeneration\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[321,10,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15700,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15699\/revisions\/15700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}