Seizures may occur, usually late in the course. Cognitive decline/dementia is of subcortical vascular type with impaired executive and organizing functions, general mental and psychomotor slowing ...

Another thing to notice is general attitude. “Someone affected by subcortical vascular dementia will seem to lose the will to do the things they used to. It’s not so much that the person isn ...

Objectives: To identify the overall profile of cognitive impairment in subcortical vascular dementia as compared with Alzheimer’s disease; and the tests which best discriminate between these groups.

Objective: To explore the neuropsychiatric manifestations in patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and cortical and subcortical vascular dementia (VaD). Methods: We investigated consecutive patients ...

Unexpectedly, however, the number of microvascular infarcts increased in subcortical structures in dementia patients whose diabetes was treated compared with untreated controls. Conversely ...

CMBs in lobar regions suggest cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), which is sometimes accompanied by superficial siderosis (SS), while subcortical CMBs indicate hypertensive origins. This study ...

subcortical damage; (4) age over 18; (5) at least a primary school education; (6) no prior speech or language therapy. Exclusion criteria included: (1) vision or hearing impairment; (2) dementia or ...

is the most common hereditary subcortical vascular dementia. It is caused by the defective NOTCH3 gene, which encodes a transmembrane receptor; over 170 different mutations are known. The main ...