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Parkinson's Disease Research: Current Insights and Future Directions
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Parkinson's Disease Research: Current Insights and Future Directions

A special issue of NeuroSci (ISSN 2673-4087).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 June 2025 | Viewed by 586

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Ikuko Miyazaki

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Department of Medical Neurobiology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Kita-ku, Okayama 700-8558, Japan
Interests: Parkinson’s Disease; neurological disorders; neuroscience; neurobiology; neuron-glia interaction; neuropharmacology; neurotoxicology

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a debilitating neurodegenerative disorder with a complex pathophysiology, significantly affecting the motor and non-motor functions of millions globally. Despite extensive research efforts, the precise mechanisms underlying PD remain elusive, and current treatments primarily offer symptomatic relief without addressing disease progression. The need for innovative therapeutic strategies and early diagnostic tools is more pressing than ever.

This Special Issue aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the latest advancements in PD research, emphasizing current insights and exploring future directions for effective diagnosis, treatment, and management. We seek to gather cutting-edge research and expert opinions that can deepen our understanding of PD and pave the way for novel therapeutic approaches.

The main focus of this Special Issue will be the evaluation of molecular pathways as pharmacological targets for treatment strategies that may improve the management of Parkinson’s disease. This Special Issue will provide a platform for all pharmaceutical and translational scientists to research important breakthroughs in drug discovery and new therapeutics in this field.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to, those listed below.

Pathophysiology and Molecular Mechanisms

  • Investigations into the genetic, epigenetic, and biochemical pathways involved in PD.
  • Role of α-synuclein aggregation, mitochondrial dysfunction, neuroinflammation, and oxidative stress.

Biomarkers for Early Detection

  • Identification and validation of biomarkers for early and accurate diagnosis.
  • Neuroimaging techniques, cerebrospinal fluid analysis, and blood-based biomarkers.

Innovative Therapeutic Approaches

  • Advances in pharmacological treatments targeting specific molecular pathways.
  • Non-pharmacological therapies such as deep brain stimulation, gene therapy, and stem cell transplantation.

Neuroprotective Strategies

  • Strategies to slow or halt disease progression.
  • Study of neuroprotective agents, lifestyle interventions (diet, exercise), and their impact on disease course.

Genetics and Personalized Medicine

We are pleased to invite you to contribute original articles, reviews, communications, and other forms of scholarly work. We look forward to your contributions to this Special Issue.

Dr. Ikuko Miyazaki
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Parkinson's disease
  • α-synuclein aggregation
  • mitochondrial dysfunction
  • neuroinflammation
  • oxidative stress
  • neuroimaging

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Harmonization for Parkinson’s Disease Multi-Dataset T1 MRI Morphometry Classification
by Mohammed Saqib and Silvina G. Horovitz
NeuroSci 2024, 5(4), 600-613; https://doi.org/10.3390/neurosci5040042 - 29 Nov 2024
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Classification of disease and healthy volunteer cohorts provides a useful clinical alternative to traditional group statistics due to individualized, personalized predictions. Classifiers for neurodegenerative disease can be trained on structural MRI morphometry, but require large multi-scanner datasets, introducing confounding batch effects. We test [...] Read more.
Classification of disease and healthy volunteer cohorts provides a useful clinical alternative to traditional group statistics due to individualized, personalized predictions. Classifiers for neurodegenerative disease can be trained on structural MRI morphometry, but require large multi-scanner datasets, introducing confounding batch effects. We test ComBat, a common harmonization model, in an example application to classify subjects with Parkinson’s disease from healthy volunteers and identify common pitfalls, including data leakage. We used a multi-dataset cohort of 372 subjects (216 with Parkinson’s disease, 156 healthy volunteers) from 11 identified scanners. We extracted both FreeSurfer and the determinant of Jacobian morphometry to compare single-scanner and multi-scanner classification pipelines. We confirm the presence of batch effects by running single scanner classifiers which could achieve wildly divergent AUCs on scanner-specific datasets (mean:0.651 ± 0.144). Multi-scanner classifiers that considered neurobiological batch effects between sites could easily achieve a test AUC of 0.902, though pipelines that prevented data leakage could only achieve a test AUC of 0.550. We conclude that batch effects remain a major issue for classification problems, such that even impressive single-scanner classifiers are unlikely to generalize to multiple scanners, and that solving for batch effects in a classifier problem must avoid circularity and reporting overly optimistic results. Full article
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