Future Neurology. 2008;3(6):683-704. In a recent meta-analysis, CADASIL patients were reported to also suffer from neuromuscular symptoms, weakness, wasting, reduced/exaggerated tendon reflexes, ...
Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is caused by mutation of the NOTCH3 gene and is considered a model of 'pure' vascular dementia. MRI ...
Multiple Lacunar State (CADASIL): (Top) Diffusion-weighted axial MRIs; (Bottom) T2-weighted axial MRIs. Note the acute infarcts in the deep white matter in the left hemisphere on the ...
The Mount Sinai Health System has received an $8 million grant from DataPhilanthropy to fuel urgently needed research into CADASIL, a genetic disease associated with changes to small blood vessels ...
There is no treatment for CADASIL, the heritable small vessel disease that causes migraines, stroke, and even dementia. Its full name is a mouthful: cerebral autosomal-dominant arteriopathy with ...
Failing to protect people at risk for genetic disease from discrimination may have a silencing effect and erode trust in the patient-provider relationship. My mother had a massive stroke fifteen years ...
A new study from Karolinska Institutet shows that damage to small blood vessels in the hereditary disease CADASIL may disrupt important brain functions in the hippocampus, a region involved in memory.
Decreased activity of a specific signaling pathway in brain vessels was linked to a decline in vascular function and subsequent neurodegeneration, according to a recent Northwestern Medicine study ...
Future Neurology. 2008;3(6):683-704. Qing Miao, Department of Pathology, Turku University, Turku, Finland. qinmia@utu.fi Saara Tikka, Protein Chemistry Unit ...