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The ultimate origin of Lewy body disorders, including Parkinson's disease (PD) and Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), is still incompletely understood. Although a large number of pathogenic mechanisms have been implicated, accumulating evidence support that aggregation and neuron-to-neuron propagation of alpha-synuclein may be the core feature of these disorders. The synuclein, origin, and connectome (SOC) disease model of Lewy body disorders was recently introduced. This model is based on the hypothesis that in the majority of patients, the first alpha-synuclein pathology arises in single location and spreads from there. The most common origin sites are the enteric nervous system and the olfactory system. The SOC model predicts that gut-first pathology leads to a clinical body-first subtype characterized by prodromal autonomic symptoms and REM sleep behavior disorder. In contrast, olfactory-first pathology leads to a brain-first subtype with fewer non-motor symptoms before diagnosis. The SOC model further predicts that body-first patients are older, more commonly develop symmetric dopaminergic degeneration, and are at increased risk of dementia-compared to brain-first patients. In t

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Author

Per Borghammer

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Neuroscience (Life Sciences)