[28] In addition, improvements in imaging technology have shown an association between patients with "silent strokes" (hyperintensities or periventricular white-matter lesions on MRI) and higher ...

A recent poll showed 75% of voters ... Multi-infarct dementia is one type of vascular dementia. Vascular dementia is the second most common form of dementia after Alzheimer's disease (AD ...

Physicians frequently encounter patients with dementia and parkinsonism, and a number of differential diagnoses should be raised such as multi-infarct dementia, normal pressure hydrocephalus ...

Multi-infarct dementia If the damage occurs due to multiple ... to a specialist for further neurological testing and a CT or MRI brain scan. The answer here can seem bleak. Drugs for Alzheimer ...

A study more closely links obesity to dementia, finding that leptin ... with cognitive function and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) measures of brain atrophy and vascular injury in healthy ...

The non-invasive imaging modalities, MRI and MRS, are increasingly used both in basic and clinical research of dementia. The ongoing international efforts of the ADNI and its European counterpart have ...

Stroke patients who fall may be at risk for vascular dementia or multi-infarct dementia,” he said. Segil added that he would be “in support of advising patients with ground-level falls to ...

There is a lot of evidence that lifestyle choices can affect our risk of developing dementia. Dementia risk is lowest in people who have healthy behaviours in mid-life (aged 40–65). No single ...

Vascular dementia is the second most common type of dementia (after Alzheimer's disease). Everyone experiences it differently. Symptoms vary depending on the person, the cause and the areas of the ...