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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

905 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. Cerebral small vessel disease: A review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Advances in clinical and experimental medicine : official organ Wroclaw Medical University 2021-03-01 Vascular contributions

    Cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) is the most common, chronic and progressive vascular disease.

  2. Coronavirus disease 2019 and neurodegenerative disease: what will the future bring?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Current opinion in psychiatry 2021-03-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Further studies are needed to determine whether COVID-19 may lead to an increased risk of developing NDD in susceptible individuals.

  3. White matter aging drives microglial diversity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neuron 2021-02-18 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Aging results in gray and white matter degeneration, but the specific microglial responses are unknown.

  4. Association of Plasma Neurofilament Light With Small Vessel Disease Burden in Nondemented Elderly: A Longitudinal Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Stroke 2021-02-01 Biomarkers

    Plasma NfL level is a valuable noninvasive biomarker that supplements magnetic resonance imaging scans and possibly reflects the severity of CSVD burden.

  5. Neuropsychiatric symptoms associated with cerebral small vessel disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. The lancet. Psychiatry 2021-02-01 Prevention and risk

    However, some individuals have subtle symptoms associated with acute MRI lesions.

  6. Mind the gap: from neurons to networks to outcomes in multiple sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2021-01-12 Brain scans and imaging

    MRI studies have provided valuable insights into the structure and function of neural networks, particularly in health and in classical neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer disease.

  7. Dystrophic microglia are associated with neurodegenerative disease and not healthy aging in the human brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2021-01-07 Inflammation and the immune system

    Loss of physiological microglial function may increase the propagation of neurodegenerative diseases.

  8. Blood-Brain Barrier Opening with MRI-guided Focused Ultrasound Elicits Meningeal Venous Permeability in Humans with Early Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Radiology 2021-01-05 Brain scans and imaging

    Three women (aged 61, 72, and 73 years) consecutively enrolled in the trial successfully completed repeated focused ultrasound-induced BBB opening of the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex.

  9. Endothelial C3a receptor mediates vascular inflammation and blood-brain barrier permeability during aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. The Journal of clinical investigation 2021-01-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Dysfunction of immune and vascular systems has been implicated in aging and Alzheimer disease; however, their interrelatedness remains poorly understood.

  10. Cerebral small vessel disease genomics and its implications across the lifespan

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Nature communications 2020-12-08 Genetics

    White matter hyperintensities (WMH) are the most common brain-imaging feature of cerebral small vessel disease (SVD), hypertension being the main known risk factor.

  11. White matter hyperintensities and risks of cognitive impairment and dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis of 36 prospective studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews 2020-11-11 Vascular contributions

    WMH were associated with increased risk of cognitive dysfunction and could become a neuroimaging indicator of dementia.

  12. Efficacy of non-invasive brain stimulation on cognitive functioning in brain disorders: a meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. Psychological medicine 2020-10-19 Vascular contributions

    Our results revealed that both TMS and tDCS elicit a small trans-diagnostic effect on working memory, tDCS also improved attention/vigilance across diagnoses.

  13. The impact of a multi-domain intervention on cerebral glucose metabolism: analysis from the randomized ancillary FDG PET MAPT trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2020-10-19 Treatments

    MI failed to show an effect on metabolism in FDG-based AD biomarker, but exploratory analysis suggested positive effect on limbic system metabolism.

  14. Association of Enlarged Perivascular Spaces and Measures of Small Vessel and Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neurology 2020-10-12 Brain scans and imaging

    EPVS are related to SVD, also in early disease stages, but the lack of correlation with cognition suggests that their importance is limited.

  15. Vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID): A report from the 2018 National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Workshop

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2020-10-08 Prevention and risk

    Vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID) are characterized by the aging neurovascular unit being confronted with and failing to cope with biological insults due to systemic and cerebral vascular disease, proteinopathy including Alzheimer's biology, metabolic disease, or immune response, resulting in cognitive decline.

  16. Association between APOE e4 and white matter hyperintensity volume, but not total brain volume or white matter integrity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Brain imaging and behavior 2020-10-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Apolipoprotein (APOE) e4 genotype is an accepted risk factor for accelerated cognitive aging and dementia, though its neurostructural substrates are unclear.

  17. Brain Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Highlights Altered Connections and Functional Networks in Patients With Hypertension

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) 2020-09-21 Brain scans and imaging

    Hypertension is one of the main risk factors for vascular dementia and Alzheimer disease.

  18. Infection as a Stroke Risk Factor and Determinant of Outcome After Stroke

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Stroke 2020-09-08 Caregiving

    Understanding the relationship between infection and stroke has taken on new urgency in the era of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

  19. Cerebrovascular risk factors impact frontoparietal network integrity and executive function in healthy ageing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Nature communications 2020-09-07 Long-term cohort studies

    Healthy cognitive ageing is a societal and public health priority.

  20. Inflammation, apoptosis and autophagy as critical players in vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. European review for medical and pharmacological sciences 2020-09-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Vascular dementia is the second-most cause of dementia, characterized by cerebral infarcts, white matter lesions, myelin loss and often amyloid angiopathy.

  21. Microglia Gone Awry: Linking Immunometabolism to Neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in cellular neuroscience 2020-08-13 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Age-related chronic inflammatory activation of microglia and their dysfunction are observed in many neurodegenerative diseases, and the potential contributions of these dysfunctional cells to neurodegeneration have been demonstrated recently.

  22. Mid to Late Life Hypertension Trends and Cerebral Small Vessel Disease in the Framingham Heart Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) 2020-07-31 Long-term cohort studies

    The duration and lifetime pattern of hypertension is related to risk of stroke and dementia.

  23. Meta-Analysis of Leukocyte Diversity in Atherosclerotic Mouse Aortas

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Circulation research 2020-07-16 TREM2 and immune genetics

    The diverse leukocyte infiltrate in atherosclerotic mouse aortas was recently analyzed in 9 single-cell RNA sequencing and 2 mass cytometry studies.

  24. Endothelium-Macrophage Crosstalk Mediates Blood-Brain Barrier Dysfunction in Hypertension

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) 2020-07-13 Vascular contributions

    Hypertension is a leading cause of stroke and dementia, effects attributed to disrupting delivery of blood flow to the brain.

  25. Neurological and neuropsychiatric complications of COVID-19 in 153 patients: a UK-wide surveillance study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. The lancet. Psychiatry 2020-06-25 Vascular contributions

    Broad clinical syndromes associated with COVID-19 were classified as a cerebrovascular event (defined as an acute ischaemic, haemorrhagic, or thrombotic vascular event involving the brain parenchyma or subarachnoid space), altered mental status (defined as an acute alteration in personality, behaviour, cognition, or consciousness), peripheral neurology (defined as involving nerve roots, peripheral nerves, neuromuscular junction, or muscle), or other (with free text boxes for those not meeting these syndromic presentations).

  26. Ambient Air Pollution Increases the Risk of Cerebrovascular and Neuropsychiatric Disorders through Induction of Inflammation and Oxidative Stress

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2020-06-17 Caregiving

    Exposure to ambient air pollution is a well-established determinant of health and disease.

  27. Common Genetic Variation Indicates Separate Causes for Periventricular and Deep White Matter Hyperintensities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Stroke 2020-06-10 Long-term cohort studies

    Periventricular white matter hyperintensities (WMH; PVWMH) and deep WMH (DWMH) are regional classifications of WMH and reflect proposed differences in cause.

  28. FastSurfer - A fast and accurate deep learning based neuroimaging pipeline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. NeuroImage 2020-06-08 How common it is

    Traditional neuroimage analysis pipelines involve computationally intensive, time-consuming optimization steps, and thus, do not scale well to large cohort studies with thousands or tens of thousands of individuals.

  29. Microglia influence host defense, disease, and repair following murine coronavirus infection of the central nervous system

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Glia 2020-05-25 TREM2 and immune genetics

    The present study examines functional contributions of microglia in host defense, demyelination, and remyelination following infection of susceptible mice with a neurotropic coronavirus.

  30. Genome-wide association study of MRI markers of cerebral small vessel disease in 42,310 participants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Nature communications 2020-05-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Cerebral small vessel disease is a major cause of stroke and dementia, but its genetic basis is incompletely understood.

  31. Human brain connectivity: Clinical applications for clinical neurophysiology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology 2020-04-21 Brain scans and imaging

    This manuscript is the second part of a two-part description of the current status of understanding of the network function of the brain in health and disease.

  32. Sleep Disruption Exacerbates and Prolongs the Inflammatory Response to Traumatic Brain Injury

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Journal of neurotrauma 2020-04-21 TREM2 and immune genetics

    Traumatic brain injury (TBI) alters stress responses, which may influence neuroinflammation and behavioral outcome.

  33. Brain Microvascular Pericytes in Vascular Cognitive Impairment and Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2020-04-14 Vascular contributions

    Pericytes are unique, multi-functional mural cells localized at the abluminal side of the perivascular space in microvessels.

  34. Neurovascular and immune mechanisms that regulate postoperative delirium superimposed on dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2020-04-14 Clinical safety

    Future experiments and validation studies Future research should determine the extent to which prevention of surgery-induced microgliosis and/or neurovascular unit dysfunction can prevent or ameliorate postoperative memory and attention deficits in animal models.

  35. Inflammation in Neurological Disorders: The Thin Boundary Between Brain and Periphery

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Antioxidants & redox signaling 2020-04-09 Clinical safety

    Accumulating evidence suggests that inflammation is a major contributor in the pathogenesis of several highly prevalent, but also rare, neurological diseases.

  36. Sepsis-Associated Encephalopathy: From Delirium to Dementia?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of clinical medicine 2020-03-05 Caregiving

    Sepsis is a major cause of death in intensive care units worldwide.

  37. Cerebral microvascular complications of type 2 diabetes: stroke, cognitive dysfunction, and depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. The lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology 2020-03-02 Risk factors

    Adults with type 2 diabetes are at an increased risk of developing certain brain or mental disorders, including stroke, dementia, and depression.

  38. Neuroimaging in the Diagnosis of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy: A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Clinical journal of sport medicine : official journal of the Canadian Academy of Sport Medicine 2020-03-01 Disease mechanisms

    Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a neurodegenerative tauopathy associated with repeated subconcussive and concussive head injury.

  39. Perivascular spaces in the brain: anatomy, physiology and pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2020-02-24 Brain scans and imaging

    Perivascular spaces include a variety of passageways around arterioles, capillaries and venules in the brain, along which a range of substances can move.

  40. Brain injury-induced dysfunction of the blood brain barrier as a risk for dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Experimental neurology 2020-02-21 Disease mechanisms

    The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a complex and dynamic physiological interface between brain parenchyma and cerebral vasculature.

  41. Associations of cigarette smoking with gray and white matter in the UK Biobank

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2020-02-07 Long-term cohort studies

    Cigarette smoking is associated with increased risk for myriad health consequences including cognitive decline and dementia, but research on the link between smoking and brain structure is nascent.

  42. Associations Between Vascular Risk Across Adulthood and Brain Pathology in Late Life: Evidence From a British Birth Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2020-02-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Midlife vascular risk burden is associated with late-life dementia.

  43. Glymphatic System Impairment in Alzheimer's Disease and Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Trends in molecular medicine 2020-01-18 Risk factors

    Approximately 10% of dementia patients have idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH), an expansion of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)-filled brain ventricles. iNPH and Alzheimer's disease (AD) both exhibit sleep disturbances, build-up of brain metabolic wastes and amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques, perivascular reactive astrogliosis, and mislocalization of astrocyte aquaporin-4 (AQP4).

  44. Association between insomnia and cognitive performance, gray matter volume, and white matter microstructure in cognitively unimpaired adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2020-01-07 Genetics

    Insomnia in cognitively unimpaired adults at increased risk for AD is associated to poorer performance in some executive functions and volume changes in cortical and subcortical gray matter, including key areas involved in Alzheimer's disease, as well as decreased white matter diffusivity.

  45. Microstructural disruption of the right inferior fronto-occipital and inferior longitudinal fasciculus contributes to WMH-related cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. CNS neuroscience & therapeutics 2020-01-04 Digital health tools

    Changes in the properties of DTI may be the potential mechanism of WMH-related MCI, especially the right IFOF and the right ILF, which may become imaging markers for predicting WMH-related cognitive dysfunction.

  46. Associations of White Matter Hyperintensities with Cognitive Decline: A Longitudinal Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020-01-01 Long-term cohort studies

    White matter hyperintensities (WMHs), mainly caused by cerebrovascular injury, may lead to cognitive impairment.

  47. Circulating Plasma Metabolites and Cognitive Function in a Puerto Rican Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020-01-01 Prevention trials

    This untargeted metabolomics study identified potential biomarkers for cognitive function in a cohort of Puerto Rican older adults.

  48. Microglia exacerbate white matter injury via complement C3/C3aR pathway after hypoperfusion

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Theranostics 2020-01-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Microglial activation participates in white matter injury after cerebral hypoperfusion.

  49. Neuroimaging in Vascular Cognitive Impairment and Dementia: A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020-01-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    Cerebrovascular diseases are well established causes of cognitive impairment.

  50. Postoperative delirium is associated with increased plasma neurofilament light

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2020-01-01 Clinical safety

    While delirium is associated with cognitive decline and dementia, there is limited evidence to support causality for this relationship.

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