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However, PD typically exhibits skewness and heavy-tailedness, and its relationship with clinical risk factors is often nonlinear. Motivated by PrD studies, this paper develops a robust single-index modal regression framework for analyzing skewed and heavy-tailed data. Our method has the following novel features: (i) a flexible 2-piece scale Student-$ \\boldsymbol{t} $ error distribution that generalizes both normal and 2-piece scale normal distributions; (ii) a neural network with guaranteed monotonicity constraints to estimate the unknown single-index function; and (iii) theoretical support, including model identifiability and a universal approximation theorem. Our single-index model combines the flexibility of neural networks and the 2-piece scaled Student-$ \\boldsymbol{t} $ distribution, delivering robust mode-based estimation that is resistant to outliers, while retaining clinical interpretability through parametric index coefficients. 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