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Background And Objectives: Cognitive impairments are common in idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder (iRBD), in which the cholinergic degeneration of nucleus basalis of Meynert (NBM) may play an important role. However, the progressive changes of NBM, the relationship between progressive NBM degeneration and progression of cognitive impairments, and whether degeneration of the NBM can predict cognitive decline in patients with iRBD remain unclear. This study aimed to investigate the cross-sectional and longitudinal microstructural alterations in the NBM of patients with iRBD using free-water imaging and whether free water in the NBM is related to cognitive, mood, and autonomic function.
Methods: We compared the baseline free-water values in the NBM between 59 healthy controls (HCs), 57 patients with iRBD, 57 patients with Parkinson disease (PD) with normal cognition (PD-NC), and 64 patients with PD with cognitive impairment (PD-CI). Thirty patients with iRBD and 40 HCs had one longitudinal data. In patients with iRBD, we explored the associations between baseline and longitudinal changes of free-water values in the NBM and clinical characteristics and whether baseline free-water values in the NBM could predict cognitive decline.
Results: IRBD, PD-NC, and PD-CI groups had significantly increased free-water values in the NBM compared with HCs, whereas PD-CI had higher free-water values compared with iRBD and PD-NC. In patients with iRBD, free-water values in the NBM were progressively elevated over follow-up and correlated with the progression of cognitive impairment and depression. Free-water values in the NBM could predict cognitive decline in the iRBD group. Furthermore, we found that patients with iRBD with cognitive impairment had higher relative change of free-water value in the NBM compared with patients with iRBD with normal cognition over follow-up.
Discussion: This study proves that free-water values in the NBM are elevated cross-sectionally and longitudinally and are associated with the progression of cognitive impairment and depression in patients with iRBD. Moreover, the free-water value in the NBM can predict cognitive decline in patients with iRBD. Whether free-water imaging of the NBM has the potential to be a marker for monitoring progressive cognitive impairment and predicting the conversion to dementia in synucleinopathies needs further investigation.
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