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Newest in this topic

  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.

Newest first, then by address. Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0); tap a score to see what makes it up. Tags were assigned automatically from each study's title and summary. The same studies as a filter in the library.

  1. Enlarged perivascular spaces and cognition: A meta-analysis of 5 population-based studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. Neurology 2018-08-01 Prevention and risk

    In this study, we found that ePVS counts were not associated with cognitive dysfunction in the general population.

  2. Brain-wide glymphatic enhancement and clearance in humans assessed with MRI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. JCI insight 2018-07-12 How common it is

    To what extent does the subarachnoid cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) compartment communicate directly with the extravascular compartment of human brain tissue?

  3. Cerebral small vessel disease: from a focal to a global perspective

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2018-07-01 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) is commonly observed on neuroimaging among elderly individuals and is recognized as a major vascular contributor to dementia, cognitive decline, gait impairment, mood disturbance and stroke.

  4. Reversal of endothelial dysfunction reduces white matter vulnerability in cerebral small vessel disease in rats

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Science translational medicine 2018-07-01 Vascular contributions

    Dementia is a major social and economic problem for our aging population.

  5. Acute transient cognitive dysfunction and acute brain injury induced by systemic inflammation occur by dissociable IL-1-dependent mechanisms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2018-06-06 Disease mechanisms

    Systemic inflammation can impair cognition with relevance to dementia, delirium and post-operative cognitive dysfunction.

  6. Stroke, cerebrovascular diseases and vascular cognitive impairment in Africa

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Brain research bulletin 2018-05-25 Disparities

    With increased numbers of older people a higher burden of neurological disorders worldwide is predicted.

  7. Cerebral small vessel disease and the risk of dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis of population-based evidence

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2018-05-21 Vascular contributions

    White matter hyperintensities are associated with an increased risk of all-dementia and Alzheimer's disease in the general population.

  8. Better diet quality relates to larger brain tissue volumes: The Rotterdam Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurology 2018-05-16 Long-term cohort studies

    From the population-based Rotterdam Study, 4,447 participants underwent dietary assessment and brain MRI scanning between 2005 and 2015.

  9. Genetic Study of White Matter Integrity in UK Biobank (N=8448) and the Overlap With Stroke, Depression, and Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Stroke 2018-05-11 Genetics

    Genetic variants within the VCAN gene may play a role in the mechanisms underlying microstructural integrity of the white matter in the brain measured as FA and MD.

  10. Rich club disturbances of the human connectome from subjective cognitive decline to Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Theranostics 2018-05-11 Mild cognitive impairment

    We demonstrated that rich club organization was disrupted, with reduced structural connectivity among rich club nodes, in aMCI and d-AD patients but remained stable in SCD patients.

  11. Disease-Associated Microglia: A Universal Immune Sensor of Neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Cell 2018-05-01 TREM2 and immune genetics

    A major challenge in the field of neurodegenerative diseases and brain aging is to identify the body's intrinsic mechanism that could sense the central nervous system (CNS) damage early and protect the brain from neurodegeneration.

  12. Systemic and Ocular Determinants of Peripapillary Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Thickness Measurements in the European Eye Epidemiology (E3) Population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Ophthalmology 2018-04-30 Long-term cohort studies

    A total of 16 084 European adults from 8 cohort studies (mean age range, 56.9±12.3-82.1±4.2 years) of the European Eye Epidemiology (E3) consortium.

  13. Cerebrospinal fluid neurogranin concentration in neurodegeneration: relation to clinical phenotypes and neuropathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2018-04-26 Disease mechanisms

    Neurogranin (Ng) is a post-synaptic protein that previously has been shown to be a biomarker for synaptic function when measured in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).

  14. Atrophy patterns in cerebral amyloid angiopathy with and without cortical superficial siderosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurology 2018-04-20 Biomarkers

    Our findings imply that the current version of the Boston criteria may not be sufficient enough to remove non-CAA cases from a cognitively impaired population, especially in the absence of cSS.

  15. Mild TBI and risk of Parkinson disease: A Chronic Effects of Neurotrauma Consortium Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Neurology 2018-04-18 Prevention and risk

    Among military veterans, mTBI is associated with 56% increased risk of PD, even after adjusting for demographics and medical/psychiatric comorbidities.

  16. Cerebral small vessel disease and risk of incident stroke, dementia and depression, and all-cause mortality: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 78 out of 100. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews 2018-04-13 Caregiving

    MRI features of cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD), i.e. white matter hyperintensities, lacunes, microbleeds, perivascular spaces, and cerebral atrophy, may be associated with clinical events, but the strength of these associations remains unclear.

  17. CXCR4 involvement in neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Translational psychiatry 2018-04-11 Disease mechanisms

    Neurodegenerative diseases likely share common underlying pathobiology.

  18. Vascular Function Is Improved After an Environmental Enrichment Program: The Train the Brain-Mind the Vessel Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) 2018-04-09 Treatments

    Environmental enrichment may slow cognitive decay possibly acting through an improvement in vascular function.

  19. Cerebral Microbleeds: Imaging and Clinical Significance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Radiology 2018-04-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Cerebral microbleeds (CMBs), also referred to as microhemorrhages, appear on magnetic resonance (MR) images as hypointense foci notably at T2*-weighted or susceptibility-weighted (SW) imaging.

  20. Cellular players that shape evolving pathology and neurodegeneration following traumatic brain injury

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Brain, behavior, and immunity 2018-03-27 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide, and has emerged as a critical risk factor for multiple neurodegenerative diseases, particularly Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  21. An Inflammation-Centric View of Neurological Disease: Beyond the Neuron

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Frontiers in cellular neuroscience 2018-03-21 Inflammation and the immune system

    Inflammation is a complex biological response fundamental to how the body deals with injury and infection to eliminate the initial cause of cell injury and effect repair.

  22. Arterial stiffness and dementia pathology: Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC)-PET Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Neurology 2018-03-16 Genetics

    Arterial stiffness, measured by PWV, is an emerging risk factor for dementia through its repeated relationships with cognition, cSVD, and Aβ deposition.

  23. Vascular smooth muscle contraction in hypertension

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Cardiovascular research 2018-03-01 Risk factors

    Hypertension is a major risk factor for many common chronic diseases, such as heart failure, myocardial infarction, stroke, vascular dementia, and chronic kidney disease.

  24. Current Clinical Applications of Diffusion-Tensor Imaging in Neurological Disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of clinical neurology (Seoul, Korea) 2018-02-28 Vascular contributions

    Diffusion-tensor imaging (DTI) is a noninvasive medical imaging tool used to investigate the structure of white matter.

  25. Vascular cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Nature reviews. Disease primers 2018-02-15 Prevention and risk

    The term vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) was introduced around the start of the new millennium and refers to the contribution of vascular pathology to any severity of cognitive impairment, ranging from subjective cognitive decline and mild cognitive impairment to dementia.

  26. Decreased hemodynamic response in inferior frontotemporal regions in elderly with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Psychiatry research. Neuroimaging 2018-02-11 Digital health tools

    The verbal fluency task (VFT) is a well-established cognitive marker for mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in the prodromal stage of Alzheimer´s dementia (AD).

  27. Concussion, microvascular injury, and early tauopathy in young athletes after impact head injury and an impact concussion mouse model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2018-02-01 TREM2 and immune genetics

    The mechanisms underpinning concussion, traumatic brain injury, and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and the relationships between these disorders, are poorly understood.

  28. White matter degeneration in vascular and other ageing-related dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2018-01-09 Inflammation and the immune system

    Advances in neuroimaging have enabled greater understanding of the progression of cerebral degenerative processes associated with ageing-related dementias.

  29. Association of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease With Lower Brain Volume in Healthy Middle-aged Adults in the Framingham Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2018-01-01 Vascular contributions

    It is associated with metabolic syndrome, incident diabetes, carotid atherosclerosis, and endothelial dysfunction, conditions that in turn are strongly linked with brain damage and cognitive impairment.

  30. The pathology and pathophysiology of vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neuropharmacology 2017-12-19 Brain tissue and pathology

    Vascular dementia (VaD) is widely recognised as the second most common type of dementia.

  31. Blood-Brain Barrier Dysfunction Precedes Cognitive Decline and Neurodegeneration in Diabetic Insulin Resistant Mouse Model: An Implication for Causal Link

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2017-12-01 Prevention and risk

    Diabetic insulin resistance and pro-diabetic diet are reported to increase dementia risk through unknown mechanisms.

  32. Cerebral blood flow in normal aging adults: cardiovascular determinants, clinical implications, and aerobic fitness

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2017-11-07 Prevention and risk

    Senescence is a leading cause of mortality, disability, and non-communicable chronic diseases in older adults.

  33. Midlife systemic inflammatory markers are associated with late-life brain volume: The ARIC study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Neurology 2017-11-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Our prospective findings provide evidence for what may be an early contributory role of systemic inflammation in neurodegeneration and cognitive aging.

  34. Neuroimaging Correlates of Cerebral Microbleeds: The ARIC Study (Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Stroke 2017-10-10 Brain scans and imaging

    CMBs are a common vascular pathology in the elderly.

  35. Glymphatic MRI in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2017-10-01 Risk factors

    In idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus, we found delayed enhancement (P < 0.05) and decreased clearance of gadobutrol (P < 0.05) at the Sylvian fissure.

  36. Chronic cerebral hypoperfusion: a key mechanism leading to vascular cognitive impairment and dementia. Closing the translational gap between rodent models and human vascular cognitive impairment and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Clinical science (London, England : 1979) 2017-09-28 Prevention and risk

    Increasing evidence suggests that vascular risk factors contribute to neurodegeneration, cognitive impairment and dementia.

  37. Diabetes, Prediabetes, and Brain Volumes and Subclinical Cerebrovascular Disease on MRI: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Neurocognitive Study (ARIC-NCS)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Diabetes care 2017-09-15 Brain scans and imaging

    More-severe diabetes (defined by higher HbA 1c and longer disease duration) but not prediabetes or less-severe diabetes was associated with smaller brain volumes and an increased burden of brain vascular pathology.

  38. Optical coherence tomography identifies outer retina thinning in frontotemporal degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neurology 2017-09-08 Tau biomarkers

    Using a cross-sectional design, we examined retinal structure in 38 consecutively enrolled patients with FTD and 44 controls using a standard SD-OCT protocol.

  39. However, whether large perivascular spaces (L-PVSs) (>3 mm in diameter) visible on MRI are associated with SVD and cognitive deterioration in older individuals is unknown.

  40. Neuropathology of White Matter Lesions, Blood-Brain Barrier Dysfunction, and Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Stroke 2017-08-30 Digital health tools

    Our data suggest that some degree of blood-brain barrier dysfunction is common in older people and that this may be related to clinical dementia risk, additional to standard MRI biomarkers.

  41. Brain perivascular macrophages: characterization and functional roles in health and disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany) 2017-08-07 Inflammation and the immune system

    Perivascular macrophages (PVM) are a distinct population of resident brain macrophages characterized by a close association with the cerebral vasculature.

  42. Brain network efficiency is influenced by the pathologic source of corticobasal syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neurology 2017-08-04 Tau biomarkers

    In a cross-sectional design, pathology was confirmed by autopsy or a pathologically validated CSF total tau-to-β-amyloid ratio (T-tau/Aβ).

  43. In vivo retention of 18F-AV-1451 in corticobasal syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Neurology 2017-07-28 Brain scans and imaging

    Patients with CBS without typical AD pathology exhibited AV-1451 retention in the motor cortex, corticospinal tract, and basal ganglia contralateral to the affected body side, clearly different from controls and patients with AD dementia or PSP.

  44. The microcirculation: a key player in obesity-associated cardiovascular disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Cardiovascular research 2017-07-01 Prevention and risk

    It is increasingly recognized that obesity is a risk factor for microvascular disease, involving both structural and functional changes in the microvasculature.

  45. Advances in arterial spin labelling MRI methods for measuring perfusion and collateral flow

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 2017-06-09 Digital health tools

    With the publication in 2015 of the consensus statement by the perfusion study group of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) and the EU-COST action 'ASL in dementia' on the implementation of arterial spin labelling MRI (ASL) in a clinical setting, the development of ASL can be considered to have become mature and ready for clinical prime-time.

  46. Cerebral Blood Flow and Amyloid-β Interact to Affect Memory Performance in Cognitively Normal Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2017-06-08 Long-term cohort studies

    Cerebral blood flow (CBF) alterations and amyloid-β (Aβ) accumulation have been independently linked to cognitive deficits in older adults at risk for dementia.

  47. Response of the cerebral vasculature following traumatic brain injury

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 2017-04-05 Vascular contributions

    The critical role of the vasculature and its repair in neurological disease states is beginning to emerge particularly for stroke, dementia, epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, tumors and others.

  48. Role of neuroinflammation in neurodegeneration: new insights

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2017-03-04 Inflammation and the immune system

    Previously, the contribution of peripheral infection to cognitive decline was largely overlooked however, the past 15 years have established a key role for infectious pathogens in the progression of age-related neurodegeneration.

  49. Extracellular matrix inflammation in vascular cognitive impairment and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Clinical science (London, England : 1979) 2017-03-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Vascular cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID) include a wide spectrum of chronic manifestations of vascular disease related to large vessel strokes and small vessel disease (SVD).

  50. Brain injury with diabetes mellitus: evidence, mechanisms and treatment implications

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Expert review of clinical pharmacology 2017-02-22 Prevention and risk

    Brain injury is associated with acute and chronic hyperglycaemia, insulin resistance, hyperinsulinemia, diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) and hypoglycaemic events in diabetic patients.

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