Vascular cognitive impairment

Nature Reviews Disease Primers

Volumn 4, Issue , 2018, Pages

  Van Der Flier, Wiesje M ^a,b   Skoog, Ingmar ^c   Schneider, Julie A ^d   Pantoni, Leonardo ^e   Mok, Vincent ^f   Chen, Christopher L H ^g   Scheltens, Philip ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^f CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^g NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERIOLOSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; COGNITION ASSESSMENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DSM-5; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POST STROKE COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SUSCEPTIBILITY WEIGHTED IMAGING; TISSUE INJURY; VASCULAR AMYLOIDOSIS; BRAIN; COMPLICATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; VASCULARIZATION;

BRAIN; COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; HUMANS; NEUROIMAGING; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 85042226113     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2056676X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrdp.2018.3     Document Type: Article

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