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Post-stroke cognitive impairment and treatment options
Cognitive impairment is a widespread serious complication of ischemic stroke requiring intensive medication treatment. Citicoline is a medicine with proven efficacy in ischemic stroke and vascular cognitive impairment. The article provides an overview of
A. N. Bogolepova
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The relationships between vitamin K and cognition: a review of current evidence [PDF]
Vitamin K is a fat-soluble nutrient discovered in 1935 and its role in blood coagulation has been thoroughly explored. In recent years, studies conducted in vitro and on animals highlighted vitamin K involvement in brain cells development and survival ...
Alisi, Ludovico +7 more
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Update on the Neurobiology of Vascular Cognitive Impairment: From Lab to Clinic
In the last years, there has been a significant growth in the literature exploring the pathophysiology of vascular cognitive impairment (VCI). As an “umbrella term” encompassing any degree of vascular-related cognitive decline, VCI is deemed to be the ...
L. Vinciguerra +6 more
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Sleep and Wakefulness Disorders in Vascular Cognitive Impairment
Dementia is a pathology that leads to disability and significantly affects the quality of life of patients and their relatives. The study and development of treatment methods for dementia is a priority in medicine, given the rate of growth in the number ...
Tatyana B. Merkulova +2 more
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Using the Oxford cognitive screen to detect cognitive impairment in stroke patients. A comparison with the Mini-Mental State Examination [PDF]
Background: The Oxford Cognitive Screen (OCS) was recently developed with the aim of describing the cognitive de cits after stroke. The scale consists of 10 tasks encom- passing ve cognitive domains: attention and executive function, language, memory ...
Alessandro Matano +14 more
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Non-Aβ-dependent factors associated with global cognitive and physical function in alzheimer's disease: a pilot multivariate analysis [PDF]
Recent literature highlights the importance of identifying factors associated with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's Disease (AD).
Di Baldassarre, Angela +14 more
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Blood Pressure and Cognitive Decline Over 8 Years in Middle-Aged and Older Black and White Americans [PDF]
Although the association between high blood pressure (BP), particularly in midlife, and late-life dementia is known, less is known about variations by race and sex.
Cushman, Mary +9 more
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Rationale: Hypertension is a major risk factor for cerebral small vessel disease, the most prevalent cause of vascular cognitive impairment. As we have shown, hypertension induced by a prolonged Angiotensin II infusion is associated with increased ...
Danielle Kerkhofs +13 more
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Cognitive impairment is a common complication observed after a stroke. Currently there are no definitively proven pharmacologic therapies for recovery from post-stroke cognitive impairment and vascular dementia.
Jin Ok Kim, Soo Joo Lee, Jung-Soo Pyo
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Vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) is the main manifestation of dyscirculatory encephalopathy (DEP). According to the severity of cognitive impairment, Stage I DEP corresponds to mild (subjective) cognitive impairment; stage II DEP to moderate cognitive
V. A. Golovacheva
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