Demographic and clinical details were obtained during the baseline visits. Motor severity and disease severity were evaluated by the motor section of the Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale and the Hoehn and Yahr staging scale. The severity of depression was quantified using HAMD-17, while cognitive impairment evaluation was assessed based on MMSE. All assessments and fMRI scans were performed on the same day during the study recruitment.
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