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  1. Pathway-specific polygenic risk scores reveal underlying mechanisms of cerebral small vessel disease 2026-09-14
  2. Cerebral Small Vessel Disease and Risk of Cardiovascular Events and All-Cause Mortality: The Framingham Heart Study 2026-09-07
  3. Regional Distribution of Mineralized Blood Vessels in Alzheimer Disease and Clinicopathological Associations: A Multicenter Autopsy Study 2026-09-01

Studies

903 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1975 to 2026

Top journals

  • Neurology 93
  • Stroke 61
  • Alzheimer s & Dementia 31
  • Brain : a journal of neurology 20
  • Annals of neurology 19

342 journals in all.

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  1. Association of Neighborhood‐Level Disadvantage with Antemortem MRI Brain Volumes in a Multi‐site Brain Bank Donor Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Risk factors

    A significant ADI × dementia interaction was observed for global atrophy (p = .005) and several other outcomes.

  2. Association of Neighborhood‐Level Disadvantage with Cerebrovascular Disease Neuropathology in a National Sample of Brain Donors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Risk factors

    We found that ∼25% of donors lived in high deprivation contexts, 52% had at least one incidence of CVD, and the cohort identified as .05).

  3. Associations between systemic inflammation, neighborhood tree canopy, and white matter hyperintensities: The Healthy Brain Initiative

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Risk factors

    Participants were 68.7±9.3 years old; 70% were female; 8% identified as Black, 89% White, as 3% other racial group; and 14% identified as Hispanic.

  4. Cerebral metabolic covariance in delirium: pattern response to symptomatic changes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Clinical safety

    Delirium exhibited a metabolic profile of network dysfunction that may be modifiable and clinically responsive.

  5. Discovering Hidden Links: Harnessing Similarity Network Fusion to Reveal Common Clusters in Healthy Aging, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The current study provides evidence that more nuanced, data‐driven approaches can reveal commonalities in the etiology and underlying neurobiology of individuals across traditional categories of CU, MCI, or AD.

  6. Harmonization Remains Unresolved: The Case of White Matter Hyperintensity Using ComBat And Deming Regression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Vascular contributions

    Using a unique dataset of the same participants scanned close in time on different scanner and protocols, we found that (1) MMD measurements were useful to test the need/improvement due to harmonization; (2) ComBat was not substantially better at creating compatible distributions between scanner vendors than Deming regression, and both were sometimes inadequate.

  7. Microglia as a key player in Aβ‐related astrocyte reactivity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Our results suggest that microglial activation is a major phenomenon linking Aβ and astrocyte reactivity in the living AD brain.

  8. Vascular risk factors mediate the relationship between education and white matter hyperintensities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Vascular contributions

    Higher education was associated with lower vascular risk (p < 0.001) and WMH burden (p = 0.004).

  9. White matter hyperintensity burden predicts domain-specific cognitive decline across the Alzheimer’s disease continuum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Scientific Reports 2025-11-25 Vascular contributions

    White matter hyperintensity (WMH), indicative of cerebral small vessel disease, has emerged as a potential biomarker for cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  10. Proteogenomics in cerebrospinal fluid and plasma reveals new biological fingerprint of cerebral small vessel disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Nature Aging 2025-11-20 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral small vessel disease (cSVD) is a leading cause of stroke and dementia with no specific treatment, of which molecular mechanisms remain poorly understood.

  11. Community Socioeconomic Disadvantage Relates to White Matter Hyperintensity Burden in Mid-to-Late Life Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Psychosomatic Medicine 2025-11-19 Risk factors

    Linear regression models showed that higher community deprivation on the ADI was associated with greater WMH volume, independently of age, sex, years of education, smoking, and time between study visits (beta=0.11, p =.028).

  12. Increased iron deposition in putamen and substantia nigra correlates with cognitive function in cerebral small vessel disease: A quantitative susceptibility mapping study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism 2025-11-12 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) is a major contributor to stroke and dementia.

  13. Higher Burden of Cerebral Small Vessel Disease Is Associated With Risk of Incident Stroke in Community‐Dwelling Individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of the American Heart Association 2025-11-06 Vascular contributions

    Among 1154 participants (46% men, mean age 70.9±8.7 years), 92 (8%) developed stroke over a median follow-up of 8.6 years (Q1-Q3: 5.1-12.5).

  14. Genetic Downregulation of Interleukin‐6 Signaling and Arteriolosclerotic Cerebral Small Vessel Disease: A Drug Target Mendelian Randomization Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of the American Heart Association 2025-11-03 Vascular contributions

    variants) was not associated with small vessel stroke (odds ratio [OR], 1.02 [95% CI, 0.95-1.10]), magnetic resonance imaging-confirmed lacunar stroke (OR, 0.95, [95% CI, 0.81-1.11]), nonlobar intracerebral hemorrhage (OR, 1.04 [95% CI, 0.72-1.50]), or vascular dementia (OR, 1.09 [95% CI, 0.95-1.25]).

  15. A 3-Week Ketogenic Diet Increases Global Cerebral Blood Flow and Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism 2025-11-01 Treatments

    The beneficial effects of a ketogenic diet (KD) on neurodegenerative conditions such as mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer disease (AD) are increasingly acknowledged, with potential implications for the general population as well.

  16. Neighborhood deprivation and midlife cognition: Evidence of a modifiable vascular pathway involving health behaviors and cerebral small vessel disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-11-01 Vascular contributions

    Neighborhood deprivation was associated with poorer cognition (r = 0.36, p < 0.001), greater prevalence of modifiable risk factors (r = 0.36, p < 0.001), and greater SVD burden (β = 0.18, p = 0.008).

  17. The brain neurovascular epigenome and its association with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Neuron 2025-10-30 Inflammation and the immune system

    Cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) is frequently comorbid with Alzheimer's disease (AD), and brain endothelial cells (BECs) express genes associated with AD genetic risk.

  18. Effect of Intensive Systolic Blood Pressure Control on Markers of Cerebral Small Vessel Disease by Age

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Hypertension 2025-10-29 Vascular contributions

    In SPRINT, the overall interaction between age and SBP on WMHv change was not statistically significant ( P =0.18).

  19. White Matter Hyperintensities Moderate the Association Between Diabetes and Non-AD Brain Atrophy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Diabetes Care 2025-10-27 Vascular contributions

    Diabetes was not associated with brain atrophy cross-sectionally or longitudinally.

  20. Cognitive dispersion is associated with white matter hyperintensities in amyloid positive older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The Clinical Neuropsychologist 2025-10-25 Vascular contributions

    Amyloid status moderated associations between IIV-dispersion and WMH, such that higher IIV-dispersion was associated with greater WMH in Aß+ individuals whether WMH was examined as a continuous (B = 0.30, ß = 0.13, p = .006) or a dichotomous variable based on quartiles (odds ratio [OR] = 2.41, p < .001).

  21. Association between cerebrospinal fluid CXCL10 and neurocognitive disorders in people living with HIV: a meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. AIDS research and therapy 2025-10-24 Inflammation and the immune system

    Eleven studies involving 1,536 PLWH were included.

  22. Research progress on the role of oxidative stress in the pathogenesis of vascular dementia and its treatment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases 2025-10-18 Lewy body dementia

    Oxidative stress is deeply involved in multiple pathological processes of VaD.

  23. Mapping the Association of Cerebral Small Vessel Disease, Gray Matter Integrity, and Cognitive Function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurology 2025-10-17 Vascular contributions

    = 0.026). Complementing previous research that focuses on CSVD and white matter changes, our study highlights abnormal gray matter integrity as a possible link between small vessel pathology and cognitive disorders.

  24. Associations of cholinergic white matter hyperintensity volume with cognitive decline and incident dementia in older adults: a cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. BMC Geriatrics 2025-10-10 Cognitive tests and assessment

    During follow-up, cholinergic WMHV was associated with an annual decline of Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) (β coefficient, -0.239; P = 0.004), and incident dementia (HR = 3.54; 95%CI: 2.05-6.10).

  25. Impact of cerebral small vessel disease on cognitive outcomes in early age at onset MCI and dementia: Findings from the DIASPORA study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-10-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), Neuropsychiatric Inventory Questionnaire (NPI-Q), and Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) scale plus National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center-Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration module (NACC-FTLD).

  26. Impact of regional white matter hyperintensity patterns on cognitive trajectories in NACC

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-10-01 Vascular contributions

    Five WMH clusters emerged. Compared to those with low WMH burden, participants in the mild occipital and high parieto-occipital clusters had faster memory decline; mild fronto-parietal and high parieto-occipital clusters showed faster executive decline; and mild and high fronto-parietal and high parieto-occipital clusters had faster language decline.

  27. With elevated HbA1c, greater LA-derived diol/epoxide ratios were associated with greater WMH volume (β [95% CI] = 0.565 [0.100, 1.030], p = 0.017), lower global BPF (β [95% CI] = -0.476 [-0.903, -0.048], p = 0.029), and poorer memory performance (β [95% CI] = -0.603 [-1.070, -0.136], p = 0.012), such that detrimental associations were observed only in T2DM.

  28. MRI markers of cerebrospinal fluid dynamics predict dementia and mediate the impact of cardiovascular risk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-10-01 Vascular contributions

    Lower DTI-ALPS, lower BOLD-CSF coupling, and higher CP volume predicted dementia, but PVS volume did not.

  29. MarkVCID2 Consortium for Clinical Validation of Biomarkers of Cerebral Small Vessel Disease: Validation Framework and Baseline Characteristics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Annals of Neurology 2025-09-22 Vascular contributions

    MarkVCID2 enrolled 1883 individuals age 73.4 ± 7.5 years, 65.0% female, 24.2% Hispanic, and 27.1% non-Hispanic Black.

  30. Vascular Dementia: From Pathophysiology to Therapeutic Frontiers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of Clinical Medicine 2025-09-19 Lewy body dementia

    Vascular dementia (VaD) represents the second-most common dementia type after Alzheimer's disease since it results from complications of cerebrovascular disease.

  31. Circulating Brain-Related miRNAs as Predictors of Postoperative Delirium in Cardiac Surgery Patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2025-09-17 Clinical safety

    Delirium is a neuropsychiatric syndrome that is pathophysiologically related to both mental (dementia, depression) and physical illness.

  32. Altered glymphatic function and cerebrovascular reactivity in white matter hyperintensities: Insights into cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Brain Research Bulletin 2025-09-16 Vascular contributions

    The ALPS-index showed a stepwise decline with increasing WMH severity and cognitive impairment (p < 0.001).

  33. Revised Diagnostic Criteria for Vascular Cognitive Impairment and Dementia—The VasCog-2-WSO Criteria

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. JAMA Neurology 2025-09-16 Vascular contributions

    Three survey rounds included 49 to 54 participants that agreed on VasCog-2 diagnostic criteria for preclinical, mild, and major dementia levels of vascular cognitive impairment (under the overarching term VCID).

  34. Multimarker Cerebral Small Vessel Disease Score and Risk of Incident Dementia in the Framingham Heart Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurology 2025-09-15 Brain scans and imaging

    -statistics 0.82-0.83). We found a significant association between all-cause dementia and multimarker CSVD scores, which was independent of the FSRP as well as its individual components.

  35. Tongxinluo capsule in the treatment of cerebral small vessel disease: protocol of a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicentre clinical study (TOPS-CSVD)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Stroke and Vascular Neurology 2025-09-10 Vascular contributions

    The primary outcome of this clinical trial is the change in the Vascular Dementia Assessment Scale-cognitive subscale from baseline to 12 months.

  36. Stroke, Cardiovascular Disease, and Dementia After Hospitalized TIA

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Neurology 2025-09-04 Disparities

    The ARIC study enrolled 15,792 participants (27% Black) aged 45-64 years.

  37. Progressive structural alterations in the cerebral small vessel disease with cognitive impairment and vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-09-03 Vascular contributions

    BackgroundThe progression of cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) leads to cognitive decline, which can be categorized into subcortical vascular mild cognitive impairment (svMCI) and vascular dementia (VaD).ObjectiveThis research aimed to examine the structural changes in gray (GM) and white matter (WM) in the brain across the disease spectrum.

  38. Association Between Plasma Metabolomic Profile and Machine Learning‐Based Brain Age

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Aging Cell 2025-09-01 Digital health tools

    Metabolomics has been associated with cognitive decline and dementia, but the relationship between metabolites and brain aging remains unclear.

  39. Unifying Vascular Injury and Neurodegeneration: A Mechanistic Continuum in Cerebral Small Vessel Disease and Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. European Journal of Neuroscience 2025-09-01 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) is a major yet underappreciated driver of cognitive impairment and dementia, contributing to nearly half of all cases.

  40. Emerging biomarkers of postoperative delirium at the intersection of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience 2025-08-29 Inflammation and the immune system

    Postoperative delirium (POD) is a common and severe neuropsychiatric complication affecting older adults after surgery.

  41. Progress of radiomics research on white matter hyperintensity lesions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Frontiers in Neurology 2025-08-26 Vascular contributions

    White matter hyperintensity (WMH) is the core imaging hallmark of cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD).

  42. NCs/CSVD-CN: AUC =0.900, 95% CI: 0.847-0.952.

  43. Analysis of brain dynamics changes in patients with cerebral small vessel disease-related cognitive impairment based on electroencephalogram microstates

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. European journal of medical research 2025-08-21 Vascular contributions

    1. Neuropsychological assessments indicated that the CSVD group scored significantly lower than the HC group in general cognitive level, memory, visuospatial ability, executive function, and language function (p < 0.05). 2.

  44. The association of retinal vessel calibre, white matter hyperintensities and cognitive decline in community-dwelling older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Age and Ageing 2025-08-21 Vascular contributions

    This study included 3540 participants with RVC data and 489 with WMH data (median [IQR] age: 73.2 [71.4-76.3] and 72.5 [71.2-75.4] years; female: 52.9% and 47.6%) over a median follow-up of 7.4 [IQR 5.5-8.5] and 3.8 [IQR 2.9-5.3] years, respectively.

  45. Loss of col4a1 in zebrafish recapitulates the cerebrovascular phenotypes associated with monogenic cerebral small vessel disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Matrix Biology 2025-08-20 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral small vessel disease (cSVD) is a major cause of vascular dementia and stroke.

  46. Mitochondrial Reactive Oxygen Species Production in Vascular Dementia Following Experimental Diabetes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Cells 2025-08-15 Risk factors

    Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a serious disease which affects millions of people worldwide and is a major factor for vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID).

  47. In the LA cohort only, higher WMHs load was associated with greater GM atrophy across all groups (HCs, AD, bvFTD), with a specific neurodegenerative pattern involving orbitofrontal, cingulate, and temporal areas.

  48. Protective Effects of Socioeconomic Status and Lifestyle on Amyloid‐ and White Matter Hyperintensity ‐Related Longitudinal Brain Atrophy and Cognitive Decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Annals of Neurology 2025-08-09 Vascular contributions

    SES and LA were associated with better cognitive performance at baseline, but were not associated with cognitive decline over time.

  49. Cerebral small vessel disease and multiple sclerosis: Similarities and differences

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 29 out of 100. Meditsinskiy sovet = Medical Council 2025-08-08 Vascular contributions

    At the end of the last century, it was realized that not only damage to the gray matter of the brain causes cognitive decline, but also damage to the white matter can lead to a decrease in cognitive abilities of high severity, up to dementia.

  50. Retinal vascular reactivity is associated with white matter hyperintensities and dysfunctional cerebrovascular reactivity in cerebral small vessel disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism 2025-08-06 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral small vessel disease (cSVD) is characterised by white matter hyperintensities (WMH) and contributes to stroke and dementia.

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