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- Title
Smaller pineal gland is associated with rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder in Alzheimer's disease.
- Authors
Park, Jeongbin; Suh, Seung Wan; Kim, Grace Eun; Lee, Subin; Kim, Jun Sung; Kim, Hye Sung; Byun, Seonjeong; Bae, Jong Bin; Kim, Jae Hyoung; Kim, Sang Eun; Han, Ji Won; Kim, Ki Woong
- Abstract
Background: To investigate the association between pineal gland volume and symptoms of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (RBD) in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients without any feature of dementia with Lewy bodies. Methods: We enrolled 296 community-dwelling probable AD patients who did not meet the diagnostic criteria for possible or probable dementia with Lewy bodies. Among them, 93 were amyloid beta (Aβ) positive on 18F-florbetaben amyloid brain positron emission tomography. We measured RBD symptoms using the REM Sleep Behavior Disorder Screening Questionnaire (RBDSQ) and defined probable RBD (pRBD) as the RBDSQ of 5 or higher. We manually segmented pineal gland on 3T structural T1-weighted brain magnetic resonance imaging. Results: The participants with pRBD had smaller pineal parenchyma volume (VPP) than those without pRBD (p < 0.001). The smaller the VPP, the more severe the RBD symptoms (p < 0.001). VPP was inversely associated with risk of prevalent pRBD (odds ratio = 0.909, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.878–0.942, p < 0.001). Area under the receiver operator characteristic curve for pRBD of VPP was 0.80 (95% CI = 0.750–0.844, p < 0.0001). These results were not changed when we analyzed the 93 participants with Aβ-positive AD separately. Conclusions: In AD patients, reduced pineal gland volume may be associated with RBD.
- Subjects
RAPID eye movement sleep; PINEAL gland; ALZHEIMER'S disease; SLEEP disorders; POSITRON emission tomography
- Publication
Alzheimer's Research & Therapy, 2020, Vol 12, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1758-9193
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s13195-020-00725-z