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PET and SPECT in Psychiatric Complications of Parkinson’s Disease

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The psychiatric complications of Parkinson’s disease (PD) are a source of additional disability and greatly reduce the quality of life of both the patients and the caregivers. Depression, psychosis, impulse control disorders, and other comorbid psychiatric disorders in PD may result from both intrinsic disease-related and iatrogenic treatment-related factors. Functional neuroimaging with PET and SPECT, with tracers for monoamine transmitters, glucose metabolism, and cerebral blood flow, has been used to reveal neuropathophysiological processes underlying specific psychiatric complications of PD. This chapter covers the current knowledge concerning brain PET and SPECT imaging in the psychiatric complications of PD, with a particular focus on the dopaminergic system.

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Abbreviations

BDI:

Beck depression inventory

CNS:

Central nervous system

DAT:

Dopamine transporter

ECD:

[99mTc]ethyl-cysteinate-dimer-bicisate

FDOPA:

6-[18F]fluoro-L-DOPA

MADRS:

Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale

PD:

Parkinson’s disease

PET:

Positron-emission tomography

rCBF:

Regional cerebral blood flow

ROI:

Region of interest

SERT:

Serotonin transporter

SPECT:

Single-photon emission computed tomography

SPM:

Statistical parametric mapping

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Kaasinen, V. (2021). PET and SPECT in Psychiatric Complications of Parkinson’s Disease. In: Dierckx, R.A., Otte, A., de Vries, E.F.J., van Waarde, A., Sommer, I.E. (eds) PET and SPECT in Psychiatry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57231-0_8

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