Abnormal intrinsic neural timescale in Parkinson’s disease

It’s unclear whether abnormal neural information stored and different temporal feature at different stages in Parkinson’s disease (PD). Here, we estimated the intrinsic timescales using the magnitude of the autocorrelation of intrinsic neural signals by resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging data in 74 PD patients, including 44 patients in the early stage and 30 patients in the late stage. Our findings suggest that PD patients exhibit abnormal intrinsic timescales in visual, sensorimotor, and cognitive systems, and at different stages, distinct patterns of intrinsic timescales in cerebral cortex, which might provide new insights for the neural substrate of PD.