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1. Medicine › Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments

   Grid cells: the missing link in understanding Parkinson’s disease?

   Reinshagen · Frontiers in Neuroscience · 2024

   A conceptual paper proposes that Parkinson's motor symptoms may mainly be a disturbance of the brain's allocentric (world-based) spatial system, involving grid cells, revealed by dopamine depletion.

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   1. Unchecked“It is argued that central hubs, like the locus coeruleus and the pedunculopontine nucleus, often narrowly interpreted in the context of PD, play an equally important role in governing the allocentric brain as the basal ganglia.”
   2. UncheckedThe paper argues that Parkinson's motor symptoms tied to dopamine loss may owe more to faulty grid cell computation than to the basal ganglia alone.“Consequently, the motor and secondary motor (e.g., spatially related) symptoms of PD linked with dopamine depletion may be more closely tied to erroneous computation by grid cells than to the basal ganglia alone.”
   3. UncheckedThe paper proposes that Parkinson's motor symptoms may mainly reflect faulty grid-cell computation in the brain's spatial map, exposed by dopamine loss.“In summary, PD motor symptoms may primarily be an allocentric disturbance resulting from virtual faulty computation by grid cells revealed by dopamine depletion in PD.”