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. 2016 Jun 12;139(8):2224–2234. doi: 10.1093/brain/aww124

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See Postuma (doi:10.1093/aww131) for a scientific commentary on this article.

Idiopathic REM sleep behaviour disorder (RBD) is associated with frequent conversion to Parkinson’s disease. Rolinski et al. show that resting-state fMRI differentiates cases of RBD and Parkinson’s disease from controls with high sensitivity (96%) and specificity (74–78%). Basal ganglia network connectivity may reveal future Parkinson’s disease before motor symptom onset.