Virtual: Brain meeting: Dr Rimona Weil

Brain meeting 

Dementia is common in Parkinson’s disease affecting around half of all patients within 10 years of diagnosis, but with variation in timing and severity.

Currently we lack robust predictors for which patients will develop dementia in Parkinson’s disease, and conventional imaging is poorly sensitive to detect early changes.

I will present data showing that visual changes can be useful predictors of cognitive decline in Parkinson’s disease and how neuroimaging, in particular using fixel based analysis of diffusion weighted imaging and quantitative susceptibility mapping can provide new insights into neurodegenerative changes in Parkinson’s disease.