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Although alterations in serotonergic pathways have been implicated, conventional molecular imaging studies have primarily focused on regional tracer uptake and have yielded inconsistent findings. We investigated whether raphe-centered monoamine transporter covariance and metabolic covariance are altered in early PD with depressive symptoms. Methods: Patients with early PD underwent bimodal PET imaging using extrastriatal [18F]FP-CIT PET as a putative marker of raphe-centered monoamine transporter\u2013related organization and early-phase [18F]florbetaben PET as a surrogate of regional cerebral perfusion. Group-level covariance analyses were performed using the dorsal and median raphe nuclei as seed regions, and covariance patterns were compared between depressive and non-depressive PD groups. Regional tracer uptake was also evaluated. Results: Compared with the non-depressive group, patients with depressive PD demonstrated significantly greater dorsal raphe-associated monoamine transporter covariance involving the left precuneus, left inferior parietal lobule, and right cuneus after false discovery rate correction. In contrast, no significant between-group differences were identified for median raphe-associated monoamine transporter covariance or raphe-associated metabolic covariance after multiple-comparison correction. Regional extrastriatal [18F]FP-CIT uptake and early-phase [18F]florbetaben perfusion were also comparable between groups. Conclusions: Depressive symptoms in early PD were associated with altered dorsal raphe-centered monoamine transporter covariance in the absence of detectable regional imaging abnormalities. Group-level covariance analysis may complement conventional regional PET analyses for investigating the network-level neurobiology of depression in PD.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/diagnostics16152318","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,24]],"date-time":"2026-07-24T07:36:13Z","timestamp":1784878573000},"page":"2318","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Altered Raphe-Centered Monoamine Transporter Covariance in Early Parkinson\u2019s Disease with Depressive Symptoms"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2978-4913","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yeongjoo","family":"Lee","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, Seoul St. Mary\u2019s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul 06591, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Seunggyun","family":"Ha","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, Seoul St. Mary\u2019s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul 06591, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7988-0228","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sang-Won","family":"Yoo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurology, Seoul St. Mary\u2019s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul 06591, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6568-5915","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Joo Hyun","family":"O","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, Seoul St. Mary\u2019s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul 06591, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ie Ryung","family":"Yoo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, Seoul St. Mary\u2019s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul 06591, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8087-7977","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Joong-Seok","family":"Kim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurology, Seoul St. Mary\u2019s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul 06591, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"901","DOI":"10.1007\/s00702-017-1686-y","article-title":"Epidemiology of Parkinson\u2019s disease","volume":"124","author":"Tysnes","year":"2017","journal-title":"J. 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