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Abstract #0547

Dysfunction of Olfactory Resting-State Functional network in Early-onset Early-stage Parkinson’s Disease

Jianli Wang1, Rachel Stanford1, Lauren Spreen2, Jeffrey Vesek2, Christopher Sica1, Thyagarajan Subramanian3, and Qing X Yang4
1Radiology, Penn State College of Medicine, HERSHEY, PA, United States, 2Molecular Biology, Penn State College of Medicine, HERSHEY, PA, United States, 3Neurology, Penn State College of Medicine, HERSHEY, PA, United States, 4Neurosurgery, Penn State College of Medicine, HERSHEY, PA, United States

Hyposmia is prevalent in Parkinson’s disease (PD) and the central olfactory system is highly affected by PD pathology. Despite the considerable progresses in understanding the pathophysiology of the disease, the mechanism causing hyposmia in PD is still unclear. Given that there is early PD-related neurodegeneration in anterior olfactory nucleus, which is a part of the primary olfactory cortex, we tested the hypothesis that there are PD-related dysfunctions in the central olfactory functional network at the early stage of disease.

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