... Microcirculation Dementia Vascular Cognitive Impairment Figure 1 The cerebral microcirculation Pial arteries ensheathed with smooth muscle cells become penetrating arteries that dive into the parenchyma of the brain surrounded by a perivascular area known as the Virchow–Robin space filled with cerebral...

...Seth Love; J. Scott Miners The contribution of vascular disease to cognitive impairment is under-recognized and the pathogenesis is poorly understood. This information gap has multiple causes, including a lack of post-mortem validation of clinical diagnoses of vascular cognitive impairment (VCI...

... Society 2017 biomarkers dementia sensitivity/specificity test accuracy vascular cognitive impairment “Doctor, will I get dementia?” is a frequent question in the memory clinic. Unfortunately, current assessment tools are often unable to give the patient a satisfactory answer. In clinical...

...Gary A. Rosenberg 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). Lacunar strokes and white matter (WM) injury are consequences of SVD. The main vascular risk...