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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

904 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. Regional distribution of white matter hyperintensities in vascular dementia, Alzheimer's disease and healthy aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2004-06-21 Cognitive tests and assessment

    White matter hyperintensities (WMH) on MRI scans indicate lesions of the subcortical fiber system.

  2. Genetic variation in white matter hyperintensity volume in the Framingham Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Stroke 2004-05-13 Long-term cohort studies

    In a previous study of normal elderly male twins, the heritability of quantitative white matter hyperintensity (WMH) volume has been estimated to be high (0.73).

  3. Experimental cerebral hypoperfusion induces white matter injury and microglial activation in the rat brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2004-05-08 Inflammation and the immune system

    Though cerebral white matter injury is a frequently described phenomenon in aging and dementia, the cause of white matter lesions has not been conclusively determined.

  4. Cognitive impairment and functional outcome after stroke associated with small vessel disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2004-04-01 Vascular contributions

    Half of the patients with SSVD complained of varying severity of cognitive problems 3 months after stroke.

  5. Depression and vascular disease: what is the relationship?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Journal of affective disorders 2004-04-01 Vascular contributions

    We investigated the nature of the relationship between depression and vascular diseases by reviewing epidemiological, clinical, neuroimaging and neuropathology studies which have reported on the relationship of depression to coronary artery disease, stroke disease, alterations in blood pressure, vascular dementia, diabetes mellitus and cholesterol levels and by reviewing potential mechanisms by which depression could be associated with vascular diseases.

  6. Late-onset seizures as a predictor of subsequent stroke

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Lancet (London, England) 2004-04-01 Vascular contributions

    Log-rank testing, adjusted for matching, showed a highly significant difference in stroke-free survival between the two groups (p<0.0001).

  7. Diffusion tensor MRI correlates with executive dysfunction in patients with ischaemic leukoaraiosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2004-03-01 Vascular contributions

    Diffusion tensor measurements correlate better with cognition than conventional MRI measures.

  8. High prevalence of thorn-shaped astrocytes in the aged human medial temporal lobe

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2004-03-01 Biomarkers

    Thorn-shaped astrocytes (TSA) are glial fibrillary tangles that contain abnormally phosphorylated and aggregated microtubule-associated tau protein.

  9. Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain in diabetes: the Cardiovascular Determinants of Dementia (CASCADE) Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Diabetes 2004-03-01 Vascular contributions

    Diabetic patients are at increased risk for stroke, but little is known about the presence of other brain lesions.

  10. The neuropsychological profile of vascular cognitive impairment in stroke and TIA patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2004-03-01 Vascular contributions

    The cognitive deficits in VaD and VCI are characterized by disturbance of frontal functions, with less verbal memory impairment.

  11. Framingham stroke risk profile and lowered cognitive performance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Stroke 2004-01-15 Vascular contributions

    In stroke- and dementia-free individuals, higher 10-year risk for stroke is associated with performance decrements in multiple cognitive domains.

  12. Vascular pathology in Alzheimer disease: correlation of cerebral amyloid angiopathy and arteriosclerosis/lipohyalinosis with cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2003-12-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Sporadic, late-onset Alzheimer disease (AD) constitutes the most frequent cause of dementia in the elderly population.

  13. Corticobasal degeneration as a cognitive disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2003-11-01 Digital health tools

    The presence of cognitive impairment in corticobasal degeneration (CBD) is now widely recognised.

  14. Type 2 diabetes and atrophy of medial temporal lobe structures on brain MRI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Diabetologia 2003-11-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Type 2 diabetes is associated with hippocampal and amygdalar atrophy, regardless of vascular pathology.

  15. Inflammation is detrimental for neurogenesis in adult brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2003-10-27 Inflammation and the immune system

    New hippocampal neurons are continuously generated in the adult brain.

  16. Cerebral amyloid angiopathies: a pathologic, biochemical, and genetic view

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2003-09-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Amyloid deposition can take place in the walls of arteries, arterioles, and, less often, capillaries and veins of the central nervous system, a phenomenon known as cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA).

  17. Progressive non-fluent aphasia is associated with hypometabolism centred on the left anterior insula

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2003-08-05 Digital health tools

    Progressive non-fluent aphasia (PNFA) is a syndrome in which patients lose the ability to communicate fluently in the context of relative preservation of single word comprehension and non-linguistic cognitive abilities.

  18. Silent Brain Infarcts and the Risk of Dementia and Cognitive Decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. New England Journal of Medicine 2003-03-26 Vascular contributions

    During 3697 person-years of follow-up (mean per person, 3.6 years), dementia developed in 30 of the 1015 participants.

  19. Is breakdown of the blood-brain barrier responsible for lacunar stroke, leukoaraiosis, and dementia?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Stroke 2003-02-27 Vascular contributions

    Proof that blood-brain barrier failure is key to these conditions could provide a target for new treatments to reduce the effects of vascular disease on the brain and prevent cognitive decline and dementia.

  20. Homocysteine, white matter hyperintensities, and cognition in healthy elderly people

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2003-02-01 Vascular contributions

    Hyperhomocysteinemia is associated with an increased risk of vascular disease, and recent results suggest that it also could increase the risk of dementia.

  21. Vascular cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2003-02-01 Caregiving

    Cerebrovascular disease is the second most common cause of acquired cognitive impairment and dementia and contributes to cognitive decline in the neurodegenerative dementias.

  22. Astrocytic deformity and globular structures are characteristic of the brains of patients with aceruloplasminemia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2002-12-01 Biomarkers

    Aceruloplasminemia is an interesting disease, the study of which helps elucidate how iron-induced oxidative stress is involved in neuronal cell death.

  23. Cerebrovascular pathology and dementia in autopsied Honolulu-Asia Aging Study participants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2002-11-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Clinicopathologic data from 285 autopsies were analyzed.

  24. Microglia in human immunodeficiency virus-associated neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Glia 2002-11-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is associated with a syndrome of cognitive and motor abnormalities that may develop in the absence of opportunistic infections.

  25. Subcortical ischaemic vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2002-11-01 Prevention and risk

    Vascular dementia is the second most common type of dementia.

  26. The central nervous system as a reservoir for simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV): steady-state levels of SIV DNA in brain from acute through asymptomatic infection

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of infectious diseases 2002-09-13 Inflammation and the immune system

    Latent reservoirs of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) present significant challenges for eradicating HIV from infected persons, particularly reservoirs in the brain established during acute infection.

  27. Oxidative stress in brain aging. Implications for therapeutics of neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2002-09-01 Vascular contributions

    Age has a powerful effect on enhanced susceptibility to neurodegenerative diseases, including susceptibility to stroke and cognitive impairment (CI) even in optimally healthy individuals.

  28. Role of superoxide dismutases in oxidative damage and neurodegenerative disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry 2002-08-01 Vascular contributions

    In recent years, oxidative stress has been implicated in a variety of degenerative processes, diseases, and syndromes.

  29. CADASIL: a common form of hereditary arteriopathy causing brain infarcts and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) 2002-07-01 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is a hereditary cerebrovascular disease leading to cognitive decline and dementia.

  30. Cerebral amyloid angiopathy and cognitive function: the HAAS autopsy study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Neurology 2002-06-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Starting in 1991, participants were assessed with the Cognitive Abilities Screening Instrument (CASI) and diagnosed with dementia (including subtype) based on published criteria.

  31. Five-year outcome of normal pressure hydrocephalus with or without a shunt: predictive value of the clinical signs, neuropsychological evaluation and infusion test

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Acta neurochirurgica 2002-06-01 Brain scans and imaging

    25 of the patients needed a shunt operation.

  32. Post-stroke depression, executive dysfunction and functional outcome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. European journal of neurology 2002-05-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The early diagnosis of vascular cognitive impairment has been challenged and executive control function has been suggested to be a rational basis for the diagnosis of vascular dementia.

  33. Hypertension and cerebral white matter lesions in a prospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2002-04-01 How common it is

    White matter lesions are frequently found on cerebral MRI scans of elderly people and are thought to be important in the pathogenesis of dementia.

  34. The relationship of hypertension in the elderly to AD, vascular dementia, and cognitive function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Neurology 2002-04-01 Vascular contributions

    Hypertension after age 65 years is not associated with AD and does not adversely affect memory, language, or general cognitive function.

  35. Homocysteine, silent brain infarcts, and white matter lesions: The Rotterdam Scan Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2002-03-01 Risk factors

    Silent brain infarcts and white matter lesions are frequently seen on magnetic resonance imaging in healthy elderly people and both are associated with an increased risk of stroke and dementia.

  36. Two types of sporadic cerebral amyloid angiopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2002-03-01 Genetics

    Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is a type of beta-amyloidosis that occurs in leptomeningeal and cortical vessels of the elderly.

  37. Insomnia in ischemic stroke patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Cerebrovascular diseases (Basel, Switzerland) 2002-01-01 Vascular contributions

    This is the first study that focuses on insomnia in stroke patients.

  38. Patterns of cerebral atrophy in primary progressive aphasia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2002-01-01 Digital health tools

    The authors illustrate the spectrum of clinical and imaging patterns in primary progressive aphasia (PPA), a syndrome of slowly progressive speech and language impairment occurring with neurodegenerative disease.

  39. MRI predictors of cognition in subcortical ischemic vascular disease and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Neurology 2001-12-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Subcortical lacunes were not related to cognitive measures independent of effects of other MRI variables.

  40. Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus: a systematic review of diagnosis and outcome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurosurgery 2001-11-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Shunting INPH is associated with an approximately 29% rate of significant improvement and a 6% significant complication rate.

  41. The ABILHAND questionnaire as a measure of manual ability in chronic stroke patients: Rasch-based validation and relationship to upper limb impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Stroke 2001-07-01 Vascular contributions

    The ABILHAND questionnaire results in a valid person-centered measure of manual ability in everyday activities.

  42. A New Rating Scale for Age-Related White Matter Changes Applicable to MRI and CT

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Stroke 2001-06-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    We present a new ARWMC scale applicable to both CT and MRI that has almost equal sensitivity, except for certain regions.

  43. White matter damage is associated with matrix metalloproteinases in vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Stroke 2001-05-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Vascular disease causes multi-infarct dementia (MID) or Binswanger's disease (BD), the latter of which is a progressive form of vascular dementia (VaD) associated pathologically with fibrinoid and hyaline changes in brain arterioles with injury to the white matter.

  44. Cerebrovascular and brain morphologic correlates of mild cognitive impairment in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Twin Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2001-04-01 Vascular contributions

    Elevated midlife blood pressures, and the resulting increased white matter hyperintensities, increase the risk for MCI in a group of community-dwelling older men to at least the same degree as apolipoprotein E4 genotype.

  45. MRI hyperintensities of the temporal lobe and external capsule in patients with CADASIL

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neurology 2001-03-01 Risk factors

    Temporal pole hyperintensity is a radiologic marker of CADASIL.

  46. Occipital hypoperfusion on SPECT in dementia with Lewy bodies but not AD

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neurology 2001-03-01 Vascular contributions

    Temporoparietal hypoperfusion on SPECT is common to both AD and DLB.

  47. HIV-associated neurologic disease incidence changes:: Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study, 1990-1998

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurology 2001-01-01 How common it is

    This study examined the temporal trends in the incidence rates of HIV dementia, cryptococcal meningitis, toxoplasmosis, progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, and CNS lymphoma from January 1990 to December 1998 in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study.

  48. Prevalence of cerebral white matter lesions in elderly people: a population based magnetic resonance imaging study. The Rotterdam Scan Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2001-01-01 How common it is

    The prevalence and the degree of cerebral white matter lesions increased with age.

  49. Neuropathologic substrates of ischemic vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2000-11-01 Caregiving

    Ischemic vascular dementia (IVD) is a relatively uncommon entity, in the course of which multiple ischemic brain lesions result in progressive cognitive and memory impairment.

  50. Short telomeres in patients with vascular dementia: an indicator of low antioxidative capacity and a possible risk factor?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Laboratory investigation; a journal of technical methods and pathology 2000-11-01 Vascular contributions

    Progressive cerebrovascular atherosclerosis and consecutive stroke are among the most common causes of dementia.

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