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 ...
LATE-NC diagnostic criteria improve differentiation from Alzheimer's, addressing challenges in memory-loss syndromes and guiding therapeutic interventions.
The patient with subcortical dementia has evidence of CVA or other abnormalities on structural brain imaging scans (hyperintensities in greater than one third of their white matter) and classic ...
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 ...
Research conducted by Veterans General Hospital’s Taichung branch shows that a particular genetic variation, specific to Taiwanese, leads to a higher risk of stroke and dementia ... dominant ...
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 ...
Alzheimer's, one cause of dementia, is a brain disease caused ... "Such habits are routinized in other subcortical regions of the brain which may be less vulnerable to the disease," says Chapman.
“Our results revealed a broad network of cortical and subcortical brain regions where iron accumulation ... brain health could play a crucial role in reducing the burden of dementia and other ...
CADASIL causes anxiety, depression, migraine, recurring strokes, cognitive difficulties and vascular dementia. Families with ...
There are rare faulty genetic disorders passed down in families that can cause vascular dementia, by damaging blood vessels in the brain. One is called CADASIL which stands for ‘cerebral autosomal ...