Cognitive performance after small strokes correlates with ischemia, not atrophy of the brain

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 1995, Pages 312-322

  Meyer, John Stirling ^a   Obara, Katsuyuki ^a   Muramatsu, Kazuhiro ^a   Mortel, Karl F ^a   Shirai, Toshitaka ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral atrophy; Cerebral blood flow; Recurrent infarction; Vascular dementia

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN TOMOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; STROKE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATROPHY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; COGNITION; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RISK FACTORS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0028883549     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: 14219824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000106964     Document Type: Article

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