Novel Pattern of Iron Deposition in the Fascicula Nigrale in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease: A Pilot Study

Table 1

Demographic and clinical characteristics of the study groups.

	PD	Control	value
M : F	11 : 7	5 : 11		0.081
Mean age (years)			0.138
Time of diagnosis to MRI (months)		N/A
Handedness right : left	15 : 3	16 : 0

Data are shown as mean SD.
Because the diagnosis was de novo, this also represents mean age of PD onset.