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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

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903 studies carry this tag.

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1975 to 2026

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  • 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. Volumetric Changes in Cerebellar Transverse Zones: Age and Sex Effects in Health and Neurological Disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Human Brain Mapping 2025-04-15 Brain scans and imaging

    Cerebellar volumetric changes are intricately linked to aging, with distinct patterns across its transverse zones, the functional subdivisions characterized by unique cytoarchitectural and connectivity profiles.

  2. WMH ‐ DualTasker : A Weakly Supervised Deep Learning Model for Automated White Matter Hyperintensities Segmentation and Visual Rating Prediction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Human Brain Mapping 2025-04-15 Vascular contributions

    White matter hyperintensities (WMH) are neuroimaging markers linked to an elevated risk of cognitive decline.

  3. Vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID) represent a major public health challenge in the aging population, with age-related cerebromicrovascular dysfunction playing a critical role in its development.

  4. Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Dysfunction in Cerebral Small Vessel Disease: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Potential

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Cerebrovascular Diseases 2025-04-10 Vascular contributions

    These dysregulations are associated with malfunctions in multiple signaling pathways or disrupted mechanical cellular responses.

  5. Long-term physical exercise facilitates putative glymphatic and meningeal lymphatic vessel flow in humans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Nature Communications 2025-04-09 Laboratory science

    Regular voluntary exercise has been shown to increase waste transport through the glymphatic system in mice.

  6. Traumatic Brain Injury and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy: Not Only Trigger for Neurodegeneration but Also for Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Biomedicines 2025-04-05 Brain tissue and pathology

    Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been linked to the development of neurodegenerative diseases, particularly Alzheimer's disease (AD) and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

  7. A more irregular shape of white matter hyperintensities is associated with cognitive decline over five years in community-dwelling older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurobiology of Aging 2025-04-03 Vascular contributions

    WMH shape is associated with long-term risk for dementia after 10 years in community-dwelling older adults.

  8. Cerebral microhemorrhages (CMHs, also known as cerebral microbleeds) contribute to vascular cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID), with aging and hypertension being key risk factors.

  9. Characterization of brain morphology associated with metabolic dysfunction‐associated steatotic liver disease in the UK Biobank

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism 2025-04-02 Long-term cohort studies

    MASLD was significantly associated with smaller volumes of total grey matter and subcortical grey matter (p < 0.05) and reduced Alzheimer's disease (AD)-signature cortical thickness (multivariable-adjusted β = -0.04; 95% confidence interval [CI]: -0.07, -0.01).

  10. Association between third ventricular width assessed by transcranial sonography and plasma homocysteine in Parkinson’s disease with cognitive impairment and their potential to predict conversion to dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery 2025-04-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Both V3 width and plasma Hcy concentration were negatively correlated with MoCA scores in PD (r=-0.358, P<0.001; r=-0.187, P=0.013, respectively).

  11. Blood biomarkers of vascular dysfunction in small vessel disease progression: Insights from a longitudinal neuroimaging study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-04-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    In linear mixed models, vascular endothelial growth factor was significantly associated with incident DWI-positive lesions over 1 year.

  12. Cerebrospinal fluid YKL‐40 relates to white matter hyperintensity progression in females but not males over a 6‐year period

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring 2025-04-01 Vascular contributions

    = 0.71) longitudinally. YKL-40 associations with FW and FW-corrected fractional anisotropy were null.

  13. Imaging brain fluid dynamics and waste clearance involving perivascular spaces in cerebral small vessel disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-04-01 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) is recognized as a major vascular contributor to cognitive decline, ultimately leading to dementia and stroke.

  14. Liver Diseases and Brain Disorders: Genetic Mechanisms and Biomarker Pathways in a Prospective Cohort Study From the UK Biobank

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Journal of Neurochemistry 2025-04-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Population-based evidence directly linking liver diseases to brain disorders is limited, and its genetic and biochemical associations remain unclear.

  15. Marchiafava-Bignami or delirium ipoactive: a case report presentation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 31 out of 100. Minerva Psychiatry 2025-04-01 Clinical safety

    Marchiafava-Bignami disease (MBD) is a rare toxic-based demyelinating disease that affects the central nervous system.

  16. White matter hyperintensity spatial patterns: Risk factors and clinical correlates

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-04-01 Risk factors

    WMHs in the frontoparietal and anterior periventricular region were associated with blood pressure traits, WMH genetic risk score (GRS), baseline and decline in general cognitive performance, incident all-cause dementia, and ischemic stroke.

  17. Seizures in Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Neurology Clinical Practice 2025-03-30 Brain tissue and pathology

    CAA may be encountered as an isolated pathology or with Alzheimer disease and has been demonstrated to be associated with an increased risk of seizures.

  18. Small vessel disease contributions to acute delirium: a pilot feasibility MRI study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Age and Ageing 2025-03-28 Clinical safety

    Mean age was 83.5 years (delirium 78.7 vs non-delirium 88.4); 13/20 were female; 17/20 had premorbid cognitive decline/impairment or dementia.

  19. Cerebral Small Vessel Disease: Therapeutic Approaches Targeting Neuroinflammation, Oxidative Stress, and Endothelial Dysfunction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Current Issues in Molecular Biology 2025-03-27 Inflammation and the immune system

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

  20. Crucial role of microglia-mediated myelin sheath damage in vascular dementia: Antecedents and consequences

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neural Regeneration Research 2025-03-25 Lewy body dementia

    Chronic cerebral hypoperfusion can lead to neuronal necrosis, trigger inflammatory responses, promote white matter damage, and ultimately result in cognitive impairment.

  21. Potential targets of microglia in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases: Mechanism and therapeutic implications

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Neural Regeneration Research 2025-03-25 Inflammation and the immune system

    For diverse neurodegenerative disorders, microglial cells are activated.

  22. Integrated bioinformatics analysis and biological experiments to identify key immune genes in vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Frontiers in Immunology 2025-03-24 Getting a diagnosis

    The results of gene set enrichment and gene set variation analyses indicated that immune-related pathways were upregulated in patients with VaD.

  23. Cerebromicrovascular senescence in vascular cognitive impairment: does accelerated microvascular aging accompany atherosclerosis?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. GeroScience 2025-03-21 Prevention trials

    Vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) is a leading cause of age-related cognitive decline, driven by cerebrovascular dysfunction and cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD).

  24. Cerebrovascular health impacts processing speed through anterior white matter alterations: a UK biobank study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Scientific Reports 2025-03-21 Long-term cohort studies

    Cerebrovascular disease is associated with an increased likelihood of developing dementia.

  25. Mediation Analyses Link Cardiometabolic Factors and Liver Fat With White Matter Hyperintensities and Cognitive Performance: A UK Biobank Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science 2025-03-20 Long-term cohort studies

    Our findings indicate that liver fat mediates associations between cardiometabolic factors and WMHs and that WMHs mediate the association between liver fat and cognitive performance.

  26. Perivascular space and white matter hyperintensities in Alzheimer's disease: associations with disease progression and cognitive function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2025-03-18 Long-term cohort studies

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia, characterized by the accumulation of amyloid-beta (Aβ) and neurofibrillary tangles.

  27. Subclinical left ventricular dysfunction assessed by global longitudinal strain correlates with mild cognitive impairment in hypertensive patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Hypertension Research 2025-03-17 Mild cognitive impairment

    Prevention of dementia represents a public health priority.

  28. Nef is a key player in neuroinflammation and myelin impairment associated with neuroHIV

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Frontiers in Neurology 2025-03-12 Inflammation and the immune system

    In particular, the severity of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND) has been greatly reduced, significantly decreasing the prevalence of HIV-associated dementia [1].

  29. Predicting White Matter Hyperintensity: Leveraging Portable MRI for Accessible Brain Health Screening

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. American Journal of Neuroradiology 2025-03-12 Vascular contributions

    The final model, which included age, systolic blood pressure >140, atrial fibrillation, and tobacco use, achieved an AUC of 0.83 (95% CI 0.75-0.90) in the development cohort (N=143, 62.4±12.6 years, 44% female, 36% non-white race) and 0.85 (95% CI 0.77-0.92) in the validation cohort (N=127, 65.2±16.8 years, 51% female, 34% non-white race), with similar results using WMH measurements derived from cMRI (N=120, p=0.98, AUC=0.86, 95% CI 0.77-0.93).

  30. Therapeutic Approaches and Potential Mechanisms of Small Extracellular Vesicles in Treating Vascular Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Cells 2025-03-11 Lewy body dementia

    Small extracellular vesicles (sEVs), including exosomes as a subtype, with a diameter typically less than 200 nm and originating from the endosomal system, are capable of transporting a diverse array of bioactive molecules, including proteins, nucleic acids, and lipids, thereby facilitating intercellular communication and modulating cellular functions.

  31. Associations Between Stroke Type, Ischemic Stroke Subtypes, and Poststroke Cognitive Trajectories

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Stroke 2025-03-10 Vascular contributions

    We identified 1143 dementia-free individuals with acute stroke during follow-up: 1061 (92.8%) ischemic, 82 (7.2%) hemorrhagic, 49.9% female, and 30.8% Black.

  32. Multi-Ancestry Transcriptome-Wide Association Studies of Cognitive Function, White Matter Hyperintensity, and Alzheimer’s Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2025-03-09 Vascular contributions

    Genetic variants increase the risk of neurocognitive disorders in later life, including vascular dementia (VaD) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD), but the precise relationships between genetic risk factors and underlying disease etiologies are not well understood.

  33. Markers of Left Atrial Myopathy: Prognostic Usefulness for Ischemic Stroke and Dementia in People in Sinus Rhythm

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Stroke 2025-03-07 Vascular contributions

    Among 4712 participants (59% female; mean age, 74 years), 193 ischemic strokes and 769 dementia cases were ascertained over a median follow-up of 8.3 years.

  34. Healthy dietary intake diminishes the effect of cerebral small vessel disease on cognitive performance in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Frontiers in Neurology 2025-03-06 Vascular contributions

    Dietary intake moderated the association between several cSVD biomarkers and MoCA scores such that the expected negative association between cSVD biomarkers and cognition was seen at low levels of healthy dietary intake, but not at medium or high levels.

  35. Models to Identify Small Brain White Matter Hyperintensity Lesions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Applied Sciences 2025-03-06 Vascular contributions

    According to the World Health Organization (WHO), peripheral and central neurological disorders affect approximately one billion people worldwide.

  36. Unravelling Shared Pathways Linking Metabolic Syndrome, Mild Cognitive Impairment, Dementia, and Sarcopenia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Metabolites 2025-02-27 Disease mechanisms

    Metabolic syndrome markers, such as insulin resistance and the triglyceride/HDL C ratio, correlate with early cognitive impairment.

  37. Unravelling the nexus of stroke and dementia: Deciphering the role of secondary neurodegeneration in orchestrating cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Neuroprotection/Neuroprotection (Chichester, England. Print) 2025-02-25 Vascular contributions

    Stroke is the leading cause of acquired disability.

  38. Associations between stroke and vascular dementia combing Mendelian randomization with network pharmacology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Medicine 2025-02-21 Vascular contributions

    The results of the inverse variance weighted analysis demonstrate a significant positive causal relationship between stroke and VaD (OR = 2.06, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.17-3.61, P = .01).

  39. Disproportionately Enlarged Subarachnoid-Space Hydrocephalus on MRI in Pathologically Confirmed Progressive Supranuclear Palsy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurology Clinical Practice 2025-02-20 Brain scans and imaging

    = 0.120). These findings suggest that DESH and high EI, often considered biomarkers for iNPH, may lack specificity and may be found in a subset of patients with PSP or LBD leading to unnecessary neurosurgery for iNPH.

  40. Neurovascular Decoupling Is Associated With Lobar Intracerebral Hemorrhages and White Matter Hyperintensities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of the American Heart Association 2025-02-14 Vascular contributions

    This raises the suggestion that a decreased neurovascular coupling in the disease process of AD is related to comorbid small vessel disease.

  41. Multimodal fusion model for diagnosing mild cognitive impairment in unilateral middle cerebral artery steno-occlusive disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience 2025-02-12 Mild cognitive impairment

    Based on the fusion of the topological features of the multimodal FBN and SBN, the accuracy for the diagnosis of MCI in patients with unilateral MCA steno-occlusive disease reached 90.00%.

  42. White matter hyperintensity severity modifies gut metabolite association with cognitive outcomes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-02-11 Vascular contributions

    Of 104 metabolites studied, glycodeoxycholic acid (GDCA) surpassed the false discovery rate and was associated the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale-Cognitive Subscale version 13 (ADAS-Cog13) score (β = 0.12, 95 % CI = 0.05-0.20, p = 0.001) and cognitive impairment determined by mini-mental status exam (MMSE) (OR = 2.11, 95 % CI = 1.41-3.15, p < 0.001).

  43. Enlarged perivascular spaces correlate with blood-brain barrier leakage and cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-02-09 Brain scans and imaging

    BackgroundThe clinical significance of enlarged perivascular spaces (EPVS) in Alzheimer' s disease (AD) was ambiguous.

  44. Normal pressure hydrocephalus combined with quadruple misfolded proteinopathy: An autopsy case report and a short review of literature

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology 2025-02-08 Tau biomarkers

    There are many reports about the comorbidity of NPH and other neurodegenerative diseases1–3; the primary findings in neuropathological studies of patients with NPH include amyloid plaques and hyperphosphorylated tau protein inclusions.2,4 This suggests that proteinopathy may be one of the potential causes of NPH.

  45. Association of metabolic dysfunction‐associated fatty liver disease with white matter hyperintensity and cognitive decline: A longitudinal cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism 2025-02-06 Vascular contributions

    MAFLD was associated with an increased risk of WMH over 4.1 years in middle‐aged adults.

  46. Longitudinal Cognitive Changes in Cerebral Small Vessel Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Neurology 2025-02-03 Vascular contributions

    One hundred ninety-eight of 229 participants had WMH volumes available at both time-points.

  47. Advances in the Study of Necroptosis in Vascular Dementia: Focus on Blood–Brain Barrier and Neuroinflammation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics 2025-02-01 Lewy body dementia

    In this review, we outline the significant roles of necroptosis and its molecular mechanisms in the pathological process of VaD, with a particular focus on the role of necroptosis in modulating neuroinflammation and exacerbating the disruption of BBB permeability in VaD, and elaborate on the molecular regulatory mechanisms and the centrally involved cells of necroptosis mediated by tumor necrosis factor-α in neuroinflammation in VaD.

  48. Lower Retinal Arteriolar Density Is Associated With Higher Cerebral Small Vessel Disease Burden: An Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Brain and Behavior 2025-02-01 Vascular contributions

    246 older adults (mean age = 58.84 ± 7.00 years; 38.21 % males) were included in our data analysis.

  49. State-dependent functional network connectivity alterations in post-stroke dementia with subcortical lesions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-02-01 Getting a diagnosis

    We identified 13 meaningful resting-state networks, and the dFNC among them derived four states exhibiting different connection patterns.

  50. Cross‐Sectional Comparison of Structural MRI Markers of Impairment in a Diverse Cohort of Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Human Brain Mapping 2025-01-27 Brain scans and imaging

    Higher BAG (pDeepBrainNet = 0.0002; pBrainAgeR = 0.00117) and lower hippocampal volume (p = 0.0015) and cortical thickness (p < 0.0001) were associated with worse clinical status (higher CDR).

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