SNCA and Parkinson disease: Interestingly, these observations are also corroborated at the level of the underlying pathophysiology, where the OB is among the early structures to display deposits of protein inclusions such as hyperphosphorylated tau starting at Braak's stage 0 and I in AD (Kovacs et al., 2001) and α-Synuclein in PD (Braak et al., 2003).