Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism: neuropathology.

By Dennis W. Dickson. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine, 2012

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Alpha-synuclein: Pathology, mitochondrial dysfunction and neuroinflammation in Parkinson's disease. (2018, background): “Post-mortem analysis of PD brains has revealed that the majority of Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites occur within the pigmented neurons in the SNc, in addition to other central and peripheral neuronal populations (Dickson, 2012; Hughes et al., 1993; Jellinger, 1987; Takahashi and Wakabayashi, 2001).”
Microglia in Neurological Diseases: A Road Map to Brain-Disease Dependent-Inflammatory Response (2018, background): “However, the loss of dopaminergic neurons occurs in many other regions such as: LC, dorsal motor of the vagus nerve, amygdala or hypothalamus (Dickson, 2012).”
Past, Present, and Future of Parkinson’s Disease: A Special Essay on the 200th Anniversary of the Shaking Palsy (2017, neutral): “As mentioned previously (see the “Clinical Heterogeneity and Differential Diagnosis” section), the clinical diagnosis of Lewy-body PD might be difficult in some circumstances,(212) and the diagnostic certainty is not optimal.(211) It is now well recognized and accepted that diagnostic errors for PD ”