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The pattern of cognitive performance in CADASIL: a monogenic condition leading to subcortical ischemic vascular dementia.
The American journal of psychiatry - 1 Nov 2005
Peters Nils, Opherk Christian, Danek Adrian, Ballard Clive, Herzog Jürgen, Dichgans Martin
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OBJECTIVE: Subcortical ischemic vascular lesions, which are closely related to small vessel disease, are a common substrate of cognitive impairment and dementia. Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is a monogenic variant of small vessel disease resulting from mutations in NOTCH3. Mutation carriers almost invariably develop cognitive deficits and...
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