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Keywords: [ 18F]fluorodopa; Adult; Biological and medical sciences; Caudate nucleus; Caudate Nucleus - physiopathology; Cognition; Degenerative and inherited degenerative diseases of the nervous system. Leukodystrophies. Prion diseases; Dihydroxyphenylalanine - analogs & derivatives; Dopamine - physiology; Female; Fluorine Radioisotopes; Frontal Lobe - physiopathology; Frontal lobe functions; Humans; Male; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Neurology; Parkinson Disease - diagnostic imaging; Parkinson Disease - physiopathology; Parkinson's disease; Positron emission tomography; The Stroop test; Tomography, Emission-Computed; Parkinson's disease; [ 18F]fluorodopa; Caudate nucleus; Frontal lobe functions; The Stroop test; Cognition; Positron emission tomography; Human; Nervous system diseases; Frontal lobe; Dopamine; Central nervous system; Parkinson disease; Basal ganglion; Catecholamine; Cerebral disorder; Central nervous system disease; Neurotransmitter; Degenerative disease; Brain (vertebrata); Extrapyramidal syndrome; Emission tomography