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Cerebral atrophy in Parkinsons disease patients with visual hallucinations
European Journal of Neurology, 06/29/2007
Ramírez-Ruiz, B., et al. - Although visual hallucinations (VH) are relatively frequent in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients, their neural substrates are only known from neuropathological and functional magnetic resonance studies...Compared with both controls and the non-hallucinating PD group, PD patients with VH had grey matter volume reductions in the lingual gyrus and superior parietal lobe. Structural changes in these areas involved in higher visual processing may be important in understanding the VH and visual deficits in PD patients
