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CURRENT NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE REPORTS
Volume 12, Issue 6, Pages 703-708Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-012-0315-2
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Neuroanatomy; Hippocampus; Thalamus; Basal ganglia; Cerebral white matter; Vascular cognitive impairment; Alzheimer disease
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The neuroanatomical substrate of vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) has traditionally included the subcortex of the brain, especially sub-frontal white matter circuits, strategic areas of single infarction that may mediate cognitive impairment such as the dominant thalamus or angular gyrus, and the left hemisphere, and bilateral brain infarcts or volume-driven cortical-subcortical infarctions reaching a critical threshold of tissue loss or injury. We provide an update on the neuroanatomical substrates of VCI and emphasize the following structures or areas: (1) new concepts in relation to hippocampal involvement in VCI based on neuropathological and MRI studies of microinfarcts and the role of traditional cardiovascular risk factors in possibly mediating or potentiating cognitive impairment; (2) advances in our understanding of cerebral microbleeds; and (3) an update on white matter hyperintensities and small vessel disease.
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