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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

908 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

343 journals in all.

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  1. Stroke injury, cognitive impairment and vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Biochimica et biophysica acta 2016-01-22 Prevention and risk

    The global burden of ischaemic strokes is almost 4-fold greater than haemorrhagic strokes.

  2. Epidemiology of stroke and transient ischemic attacks: Current knowledge and perspectives

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Revue neurologique 2015-12-21 Prevention and risk

    Because of the growing size and aging of the world's population, the global burden of stroke is increasing dramatically.

  3. Neurovascular dysfunction and neurodegeneration in dementia and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Biochimica et biophysica acta 2015-12-17 Prevention and risk

    Vascular insults can initiate a cascade of molecular events leading to neurodegeneration, cognitive impairment, and dementia.

  4. Frontal white matter hyperintensities, clasmatodendrosis and gliovascular abnormalities in ageing and post-stroke dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2015-12-14 Inflammation and the immune system

    White matter hyperintensities as seen on brain T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging are associated with varying degrees of cognitive dysfunction in stroke, cerebral small vessel disease and dementia.

  5. The first NINDS/NIBIB consensus meeting to define neuropathological criteria for the diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2015-12-14 Getting a diagnosis

    Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a neurodegeneration characterized by the abnormal accumulation of hyperphosphorylated tau protein within the brain.

  6. Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption Is an Early Event That May Persist for Many Years After Traumatic Brain Injury in Humans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2015-12-01 Risk factors

    Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a risk factor for dementia.

  7. Domain-specific versus generalized cognitive screening in acute stroke

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2015-11-20 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Cognitive assessments after stroke are typically short form tests developed for dementia that generates pass/fail classifications (e.g. the MoCA).

  8. Cerebral amyloid angiopathy and cognitive outcomes in community-based older persons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Neurology 2015-11-04 Brain tissue and pathology

    We tested the hypothesis that cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is related to Alzheimer disease (AD) dementia and decline in multiple cognitive systems in old age, independent of AD plaque and tangle pathology and other common age-related neuropathologies.

  9. Basal forebrain control of wakefulness and cortical rhythms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Nature communications 2015-11-03 Risk factors

    Wakefulness, along with fast cortical rhythms and associated cognition, depend on the basal forebrain (BF).

  10. EEG characteristics in "eyes-open" versus "eyes-closed" conditions: Small-world network architecture in healthy aging and age-related brain degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology 2015-09-25 Mild cognitive impairment

    In resting state condition, aMCI small-world architecture presents midway topological properties between AD subjects and healthy controls, confirming the hypothesis that aMCI is an intermediate step along the disease progression.

  11. A neuroradiologist's guide to arterial spin labeling MRI in clinical practice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neuroradiology 2015-09-09 Vascular contributions

    Arterial spin labeling (ASL) is a non-invasive MRI technique to measure cerebral blood flow (CBF).

  12. Vascular dysfunction in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease--A review of endothelium-mediated mechanisms and ensuing vicious circles

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2015-08-23 Brain tissue and pathology

    Late-onset dementia is a major health concern in the ageing population.

  13. Cerebral small vessel disease is related to disturbed 24-h activity rhythms: a population-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. European journal of neurology 2015-07-24 Long-term cohort studies

    Cerebral small vessel disease is common in elderly persons.

  14. White matter hyperintensity burden in elderly cohort studies: The Sunnybrook Dementia Study, Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, and Three-City Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2015-07-21 Long-term cohort studies

    Given the recent acknowledgement of the complex mixed pathologies that contribute to the clinical expression of dementia, various cohort studies have aimed to examine Alzheimer's disease and cerebrovascular disease as comorbid pathologies, with neuroimaging playing a central role in these studies.

  15. Cortical superficial siderosis: detection and clinical significance in cerebral amyloid angiopathy and related conditions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2015-06-26 Brain tissue and pathology

    Cortical superficial siderosis describes a distinct pattern of blood-breakdown product deposition limited to cortical sulci over the convexities of the cerebral hemispheres, sparing the brainstem, cerebellum and spinal cord.

  16. The effects of DL-3-n-butylphthalide in patients with vascular cognitive impairment without dementia caused by subcortical ischemic small vessel disease: A multicentre, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2015-06-15 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Vascular cognitive impairment without dementia is very common among the aged and tends to progress to dementia, but there have been no proper large-scale intervention trials dedicated to it.

  17. Progressive inflammation-mediated neurodegeneration after traumatic brain or spinal cord injury

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. British journal of pharmacology 2015-06-12 Inflammation and the immune system

    Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been linked to dementia and chronic neurodegeneration.

  18. Cerebral perfusion in the predementia stages of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. European radiology 2015-06-05 Mild cognitive impairment

    Key points • Decreasing CBF relates to more advanced AD stages in all supratentorial regions. • The reduction of CBF does not reach a bottom level. • ASL-CBF has potential as a measure for disease progression in AD.

  19. Capillary dysfunction: its detection and causative role in dementias and stroke

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Current neurology and neuroscience reports 2015-06-01 Clinical safety

    In acute ischemic stroke, critical hypoperfusion is a frequent cause of hypoxic tissue injury: As cerebral blood flow (CBF) falls below the ischemic threshold of 20 mL/100 mL/min, neurological symptoms develop and hypoxic tissue injury evolves within minutes or hours unless the oxygen supply is restored.

  20. A large percentage of patients subjected to general anesthesia at 65 years and older exhibit postoperative delirium (POD).

  21. Glucose indices are associated with cognitive and structural brain measures in young adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Neurology 2015-05-06 Long-term cohort studies

    The sample included dementia-free participants (mean age 40 ± 9 years; 53% women) of the Framingham Heart Study third-generation cohort with cognitive testing of memory, abstract reasoning, visual perception, attention, and executive function (n = 2,126).

  22. Cortical microinfarcts on 3T MRI: Clinical correlates in memory-clinic patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2015-05-05 Cognitive tests and assessment

    This is the first study to assess cerebral microinfarcts (CMIs) on 3 tesla (3T) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in a memory clinic population.

  23. Correlations between mini-mental state examination score, cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers, and pathology observed in brain biopsies of patients with normal-pressure hydrocephalus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2015-05-01 Tau biomarkers

    Alzheimer disease (AD)-related pathology was assessed in cortical biopsy samples of 111 patients with idiopathic normal-pressure hydrocephalus.

  24. The role of vascular endothelial growth factor in neurodegeneration and cognitive decline: exploring interactions with biomarkers of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2015-05-01 Caregiving

    Vascular endothelial growth factor was associated with baseline hippocampal volume (t277 = 2.62; P = .009), longitudinal hippocampal atrophy (t858 = 2.48; P = .01), and longitudinal decline in memory (t1629 = 4.09; P Conclusions and relevance Elevated cerebrospinal fluid VEGF was associated with more optimal brain aging in vivo.

  25. The contribution of astrocytes and microglia to traumatic brain injury

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. British journal of pharmacology 2015-04-24 Inflammation and the immune system

    Traumatic brain injury (TBI) represents a major cause of death and disability in developed countries.

  26. In vivo characterization of chronic traumatic encephalopathy using [F-18]FDDNP PET brain imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2015-04-06 Disease mechanisms

    Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is an acquired primary tauopathy with a variety of cognitive, behavioral, and motor symptoms linked to cumulative brain damage sustained from single, episodic, or repetitive traumatic brain injury (TBI).

  27. Cognitive impairment six months after ischaemic stroke: a profile from the ASPIRE-S study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. BMC neurology 2015-03-12 Caregiving

    Encouragingly, aspects of secondary prevention were identified that may be protective in reducing the incidence of cognitive impairment post-stroke.

  28. Epidemiology of mild traumatic brain injury and neurodegenerative disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Molecular and cellular neurosciences 2015-03-05 How common it is

    Every year an estimated 42 million people worldwide suffer a mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) or concussion.

  29. Pharmacological treatment and prevention of cerebral small vessel disease: a review of potential interventions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. International journal of stroke : official journal of the International Stroke Society 2015-03-02 Inflammation and the immune system

    Small vessel disease encompasses lacunar stroke, white matter hyperintensities, lacunes and microbleeds.

  30. Imaging Vascular Disease and Amyloid in the Aging Brain: Implications for Treatment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2015-03-01 Biomarkers

    Vascular risk factors (e.g. hypertension, dyslipidemia and diabetes) are well known risk factors for Alzheimer' disease.

  31. White matter hyperintensities, cognitive impairment and dementia: an update

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2015-02-17 Brain scans and imaging

    White matter hyperintensities (WMHs) in the brain are the consequence of cerebral small vessel disease, and can easily be detected on MRI.

  32. Multiethnic genome-wide association study of cerebral white matter hyperintensities on MRI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Circulation. Cardiovascular genetics 2015-02-07 Genetics

    We identified 4 novel genetic loci that implicate inflammatory and glial proliferative pathways in the development of WMH in addition to previously proposed ischemic mechanisms.

  33. B-lymphocyte-mediated delayed cognitive impairment following stroke

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2015-02-01 Vascular contributions

    Each year, 10 million people worldwide survive the neurologic injury associated with a stroke.

  34. Early cerebral small vessel disease and brain volume, cognition, and gait

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2015-02-01 Disparities

    Covert cerebrovascular disease and its consequences on cognitive and gait performance and brain atrophy are manifest in some clinically asymptomatic persons as early as the 5th decade of life.

  35. Relationship between white matter hyperintensities, cortical thickness, and cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Stroke 2015-01-08 Vascular contributions

    These cross-sectional results suggest that cortical changes (regional-specific damage and network breakdown), mediated (in)directly by WMH (tract-specific damage) and other factors (eg, vascular risk factors), might lead to cognitive decline.

  36. Brain Aging in African-Americans: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Experience

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2015-01-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Reported rates of dementia differ by race, although most studies have not focused on carefully measured outcomes, confounding by education or other demographic factors, nor have they studied other outcomes other than dementia.

  37. Chronic neurodegeneration after traumatic brain injury: Alzheimer disease, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or persistent neuroinflammation?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics 2015-01-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    It has long been suggested that prior traumatic brain injury (TBI) increases the subsequent incidence of chronic neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer disease, Parkinson disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

  38. Morphometric and histologic substrates of cingulate integrity in elders with exceptional memory capacity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2015-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    This human study is based on an established cohort of "SuperAgers," 80+-year-old individuals with episodic memory function at a level equal to, or better than, individuals 20-30 years younger.

  39. Normative data for 8 neuropsychological tests in older blacks and whites from the atherosclerosis risk in communities (ARIC) study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2015-01-01 Disparities

    Accurate assessment of cognitive impairment requires comparison of cognitive performance in individuals to performance in a comparable healthy normative population.

  40. String Vessel Formation is Increased in the Brain of Parkinson Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Parkinson's disease 2015-01-01 Biomarkers

    Endothelial degeneration and preservation of basement membrane result in an increase of string vessel formation in PD.

  41. White matter changes in dementia: role of impaired drainage of interstitial fluid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) 2015-01-01 Prevention and risk

    White matter abnormalities on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are associated with dementia and include white matter hyperintensities (WMH; also termed leukoaraiosis) and visible perivascular spaces (PVS).

  42. Effects of Physical Exercise on Neuroinflammation, Neuroplasticity, Neurodegeneration, and Behavior: What We Can Learn From Animal Models in Clinical Settings

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurorehabilitation and neural repair 2014-12-19 Inflammation and the immune system

    Physical exercise is a cornerstone in the management of many neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson's disease, dementia, and stroke.

  43. Spontaneous white matter damage, cognitive decline and neuroinflammation in middle-aged hypertensive rats: an animal model of early-stage cerebral small vessel disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2014-12-18 Disparities

    Our results indicate that SHR share behavioral and neuropathological characteristics with human cSVD patients and further undergird the relevance of immune responses for the initiation and progression of cSVD.

  44. Vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia including Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2014-12-12 Vascular contributions

    Scientific evidence continues to demonstrate the linkage of vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia such as Alzheimer's disease.

  45. From chronic cerebral hypoperfusion to Alzheimer-like brain pathology and neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Cellular and molecular neurobiology 2014-10-29 Inflammation and the immune system

    Chronic cerebral hypoperfusion (CCH) is a common consequence of various cerebral vascular disorders and hemodynamic and blood changes.

  46. Abnormal retinal nerve fiber layer thickness and macula lutea in patients with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Archives of gerontology and geriatrics 2014-10-18 Cognitive tests and assessment

    We investigated possible abnormalities in the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) and macula lutea of patients diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and tested for any correlation with the severity of dementia.

  47. Myeloid microvesicles in cerebrospinal fluid are associated with myelin damage and neuronal loss in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2014-10-16 Brain scans and imaging

    Microglial MVs are neurotoxic and myelinotoxic in the presence of Aβ1-42 .

  48. Inflammasomes in neuroinflammation and changes in brain function: a focused review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2014-10-07 Risk factors

    Recent literature has pointed to the existence of inflammasome-mediated inflammatory pathways in central nervous system (CNS) disorders and associated changes in behavior.

  49. The effects of intracranial volume adjustment approaches on multiple regional MRI volumes in healthy aging and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2014-10-07 Brain scans and imaging

    In neurodegeneration research, normalization of regional volumes by intracranial volume (ICV) is important to estimate the extent of disease-driven atrophy.

  50. Studying ventricular abnormalities in mild cognitive impairment with hyperbolic Ricci flow and tensor-based morphometry

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. NeuroImage 2014-10-05 Long-term cohort studies

    Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is a transitional stage between normal aging and dementia and people with MCI are at high risk of progression to dementia.

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