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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

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. Pathological verification of ischemic score in differentiation of dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Annals of neurology 1980-05-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Fourteen case histories of persons who had a histological diagnosis of either senile dementia of the Alzheimer type, multiinfarct dementia, or a mixed dementia composed of these two types and who showed evidence of a moderate to severe dementia on psychological testing were rated for the presence of thirteen clinical features comprising Hachinski's Ischemic Score.

  2. A light and electron microscopic study of experimental portal-systemic (ammonia) encephalopathy. Progression and reversal of the disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Laboratory investigation; a journal of technical methods and pathology 1977-06-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    A sequential light and electron microscopic study of cerebral cortex was performed in a rat model of portal-systemic encephalopathy produced by creating a portacaval shunt and followed by ammoniate resin feedings.

  3. Cerebral Blood Flow in Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Archives of Neurology 1975-09-01 Vascular contributions

    Twenty-four patients of comparable age, blood pressure, and degree of dementia were classified by an "Ischemic Score" based on clinical features into "multi-infarct" and "primary degenerative" dementia.

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