Recent advances in the vascular brain injury of cognitive function network / 中国脑血管病杂志

ABSTRACT

Vascular cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID) , characterized with progressive worsening of executive function,learning and memory ability,is a clinical syndrome associated with vascular etiologies. Vascular injury leads to the compromise of integrity in the anatomical network connectivity and functional network connectivity within white matter, cortical gray matter and subcortical gray matter of the brain. Recent advances of VCID at different levels, from molecule and cell to brain structure, functional network and clinical disease,are summarized in this review.