• Dan Zheng, Chuang Chen, WenChun Song, ZhongQuan Yi, PanWen Zhao, JianGuo Zhong, ZhenYu Dai, HaiCun Shi, and PingLei Pan.
• School of Nursing, Jiangsu Vocational College of Medicine, Yancheng, PR China.
• Behav. Brain Res. 2019 Oct 3; 371: 111973.

AbstractMild cognitive impairment (MCI) is inconclusively associated with regional gray matter (GM) abnormalities in Parkinson's disease (PD). We aimed to quantitatively evaluate whole-brain voxel-based morphometry (VBM) studies that have investigated brain GM changes in PD patients with MCI (PD-MCI). Seed-based d Mapping, a well-validated coordinate-based meta-analytic approach, was utilized. We included 20 VBM studies that reported 22 datasets containing 504 patients with PD-MCI and 554 PD patients without MCI (PD-NCI). The most reliable finding identified in this meta-analysis was that patients with PD-MCI exhibited greater GM atrophy in the left anterior insula than those with PD-NCI. Our findings further suggest that several moderators (age, gender, educational level, disease stage, severity of motor disability, and the severity of cognitive impairments) in PD-MCI individuals, as well as scanner field-strength, may drive heterogeneous GM changes across studies. GM abnormalities in the anterior insula, an important cognitive hub involved in switching between neural networks, contribute to understanding the neural substrates of MCI in PD, which may serve as a biomarker of PD-MCI.Copyright © 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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