Fig. 3: Functional connectivity changes over time in patients eligible or not to DBS.
From: Functional connectivity in Parkinson’s disease candidates for deep brain stimulation
Three distinct patterns of progression are represented: a different trend of change between PD groups (connections in red); b similar trend of change (increase or decrease), with or without functional connectivity difference between the groups (connections in green); and c different but stable functional connectivity values over time in the two groups (connections in light blue). The effects of age, sex, levodopa equivalent daily dose at study entry, and changes of treatment over time were considered in the model. Figure reports selected findings. For further details see Supplementary Table 3. Supplementary Table 5 reports the names of each brain node with the corresponding number. Candidates for DBS patients eligible for DBS, FC functional connectivity, L left, Non-candidates patients not eligible for DBS, R right.
