Pathology and pathogenesis of vascular cognitive impairment-a critical update

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue APR, 2013, Pages

  Jellinger, Kurt A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL NEUROBIOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cerebral infarcts; Large and small vessel disease; Neuropathology; Pathogenic factors; Subcortical vascular lesions; Vascular cognitive impairment; Vascular dementia

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOPTOSIS; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; AUTOPSY; BASAL GANGLION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN INFARCTION; CAUCASIAN; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENE MUTATION; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HUMAN; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MEMORY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; VASCULAR AMYLOIDOSIS; VASCULAR COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULAR LESION; WHITE MATTER LESION;

EID: 84897365236     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2013.00017     Document Type: Article

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