Medical management of organic psychomotor agitation and neurorehabilitation after revascularized vertebrobasilar stroke by Antonia Ioana Vasile, Cristina Nica, Cristina Tiu

“…Psychomotor agitation is a behavioral and emotional symptom frequently seen in dementia patients. Vascular dementia has few options for treating non-cognitive symptoms such as agitation and psychotic symptoms. …”
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Promising Neuroprotective Effects of Dracocephalum Species: Mechanistic Perspectives by Marjan Talebi, Alireza Ghassempour, Afsoon Feizi, Seyed Abdulmajid Ayatollahi, Mehrdad Faizi

“…The role of the genus Dracocephalum was investigated in relation to various neurological conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, insomnia, Parkinson's disease, vascular dementia, cerebral ischemia, pain, depression, and glioblastoma. …”
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ML-Based Quantitative Analysis of Linguistic and Speech Features Relevant in Predicting Alzheimer’s Disease by Tripti Tripathi, Rakesh Kumar

“…This study presents a novel approach for detecting and classifying six types of cognitive impairment using speech-based analysis, including probable AD, possible AD, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), memory impairments, vascular dementia, and control. The method employs speech data from DementiaBank’s Pitt Corpus, which is preprocessed and analyzed to extract pertinent acoustic features. …”
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Neutrophil–Lymphocytes Ratio as Potential Early Marker for Alzheimer’s Disease by Carlo Cervellati, Dario Pedrini, Pietro Pirro, Paola Guindani, Carlo Renzini, Gloria Brombo, Giovanni Zuliani

“…NLR was measured in the blood of patients with AD (n = 103), amnestic type mild cognitive impairment (aMCI, n = 212), vascular dementia (VAD, n = 34), and cognitively healthy Controls (n = 61). …”
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Joint analysis of blood pressure changes over time and survival of hypertensive patients under treatment at Sawula hospital in Southern Ethiopia by Markos Abiso Erango, Tademe Fiseha, Galgalo Jaba Nura

“…High blood pressure, or hypertension, has been associated with severe health consequences, including death, aneurysms, stroke, chronic renal disease, eye damage, heart attack, heart failure, peripheral artery disease, and vascular dementia. Consequently, this study aimed to investigate the predictors linked to survival time and the progression of blood pressure measurements in hypertensive patients. …”
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Machine Learning Model-Based Applications for Food Management in Alzheimer’s Using Regression Analysis Approach by Sajadul Hassan Kumhar, Prabhakara Rao Kapula, Harveen Kaur, Radeep R. Krishna, Mudasir M Kirmani, Vijay Anant Athavale, Mohd Wazih Ahmad

“…Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has become a public health concern due to its misinterpretation with vascular dementia (VD) and mixed dementia Alzheimer’s disease (MXD). …”
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Continuous Professional Oral Health Care Intervention Improves Severe Aspiration Pneumonia by Wakako Nawata, Yojiro Umezaki, Masahiro Yamaguchi, Masato Nakajima, Michiko Makino, Masahiro Yoneda, Takao Hirofuji, Takafumi Yamano, Hiroaki Ooboshi, Hiromitsu Morita

“…A 74-year-old male patient with a brain infarction suffered from severe aspiration pneumonia (PSI: IV, A-DROP: 3) complicated by vascular dementia and severe dysphagia. Because an antimicrobial approach following the treatment guidelines for pneumonia was not effective, we started a POHC intervention to improve his poor oral condition at the request of the attending doctor and the patient’s family. …”
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Upregulation of PGC-1α Attenuates Oxygen-Glucose Deprivation-Induced Hippocampal Neuronal Injury by Bin Han, Hui Zhao, Xingji Gong, Jinping Sun, Song Chi, Tao Liu, Anmu Xie

“…Hippocampal neuronal damage likely underlies cognitive impairment in vascular dementia (VaD). PPARγ coactivator-1α (PGC-1α) is a master regulator of mitochondrial biogenesis. …”
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IL-34 aggravates myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury by upregulating the HMGB1-IL-17A-IL-6 axis through the JAK signaling pathway. by Ruisong Ma, Xiaochun Hu, Wenwen Fu, Xiaorong Hu

“…Interleukin-34 (IL-34) was recently reported to be a new biomarker for atherosclerosis diseases, such as coronary artery disease and vascular dementia. IL-34 regulates the expression of proinflammatory cytokines (IL-17A, IL-1 and IL-6), which are classical cytokines involved in myocardial ischemia‒reperfusion (MI/R) injury. …”
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The Diagnostic Role of Serum Inflammatory and Soluble Proteins on Dementia Subtypes: Correlation with Cognitive and Functional Decline by Candan Öztürk, Aynur Özge, Osman Özgür Yalın, İ. Arda Yılmaz, Nuran Delialioglu, Çilem Yıldız, Bahar Tesdelen, Cigdem Kudiaki

“…However there are restricted data about the profile of the inflammatory and soluble proteins in well evaluated Alzheimer’s disease (AD), vascular dementia (VD), mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and healthy controls. …”
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The Tree-Drawing Test (Koch’s Baum Test): A Useful Aid to Diagnose Cognitive Impairment by Michelangelo Stanzani Maserati, Corrado Matacena, Luisa Sambati, Federico Oppi, Roberto Poda, Maddalena De Matteis, Roberto Gallassi

“…Consecutive outpatients were classified as affected by dementia (Alzheimer’s disease (AD), frontotemporal dementia (FTD), and vascular dementia (VD)) or by MCI. Patients and controls underwent the Tree-Drawing Test and MMSE. …”
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The Microbiota–Gut–Brain Axis: Key Mechanisms Driving Glymphopathy and Cerebral Small Vessel Disease by Che Mohd Nasril Che Mohd Nassir, Muhammad Danial Che Ramli, Mazira Mohamad Ghazali, Usman Jaffer, Hafizah Abdul Hamid, Muhammad Zulfadli Mehat, Zaw Myo Hein

“…The recent explosion of microbiome research has begun to detail its important role in neurological health, particularly concerning cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD), a disorder associated with cognitive decline and vascular dementia. This narrative review represents state-of-the-art knowledge of the intimate, complex interplay between microbiota and brain health through the gut–brain axis (GBA) and the emerging role of glymphatic system dysfunction (glymphopathy) and circulating cell-derived microparticles (MPs) as mediators of these interactions. …”
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Multi-functional role of apolipoprotein E in neurodegenerative diseases by Sadequl Islam, Arshad Noorani, Yang Sun, Makoto Michikawa, Kun Zou

“…It also covers ApoE’s influence in other neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s disease (PD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), Huntington’s disease (HD), vascular dementia (VD), and multiple sclerosis (MS). New research highlights the interaction between ApoE and presenilin (PS), suggesting connections between familial AD (FAD) and SAD. …”
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Water quality and neurodegenerative disease risk in the middle-aged and elderly population by Yujia Bao, Yongxuan Li, Yanqiu Zhou, Jingqi Zhou, Wei Mu, Xiaobei Deng, Chen Shen, Lefei Han, Jinjun Ran

“…We found water hardness in 0–120 mg/L elevated the incidence risks of Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia compared to that in 120–300 mg/L, with hazard ratios of 1.13 (1.01, 1.27) and 1.24 (1.05, 1.46), respectively. …”
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Glymphatic system: a self-purification circulation in brain by Siying Chen, Siying Chen, Huijing Wang, Lini Zhang, Yingying Xi, Yiying Lu, Kailin Yu, Yujie Zhu, Izmailova Regina, Yong Bi, Fang Tong, Fang Tong

“…Damage to the glymphatic system will give rise to the development and progression of many brain diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD), chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), and vascular dementia (VaD). Here, we reviewed previous research associated with the glymphatic system, including its concepts, principles, and influencing factors. …”
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Delaying Onset of Dementia: Are Two Languages Enough? by Morris Freedman, Suvarna Alladi, Howard Chertkow, Ellen Bialystok, Fergus I. M. Craik, Natalie A. Phillips, Vasanta Duggirala, Surampudi Bapi Raju, Thomas H. Bak

“…Moreover, the Hyderabad study extended the findings to frontotemporal dementia and vascular dementia.…”
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Research hotspots and trends in the antioxidant effects of acupuncture: A bibliometric analysis from 2003 to 2024 by Zhilin Huang, Song Li, YiHao Zhou, Anhong Dai, Yi Zhang, Meifang Liu, Mengqi Le, Jing Shi

“…Neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease, vascular dementia, and stroke are major research areas in this field. …”
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Amyloid-β and heart failure in Alzheimer’s disease: the new vistas by Hayder M. Al-Kuraishy, Ghassan M. Sulaiman, Hamdoon A. Mohammed, Sohaib G. Mohammed, Ali I. Al-Gareeb, Ali K. Albuhadily, Retaj A. Dawood, Amer Al Ali, Mohammed H. Abu-Alghayth

“…It has been shown that cardiometabolic conditions such as obesity, type 2 diabetes (T2D), and heart failure (HF) are regarded as possible risk factors for the development of AD and other types of dementia, such as vascular dementia. HF-induced chronic cerebral hypoperfusion, oxidative stress, and inflammation can induce the development and progression of AD. …”
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Structural and iron content changes in subcortical vascular mild cognitive impairment: a combined voxel-based morphometry and quantitative susceptibility mapping study by Yushuang Liu, Yingqi Lu, Liyu Hu, Jinping Xu, Xingchen Liu, Nan Yang, Shangjie Chen, Zhongling Zhang

“…Background: Further studies are necessary to investigate the neural mechanisms elemental of subcortical vascular mild cognitive impairment (svMCI), which is considered as precursor to vascular dementia (VaD). This objective of this research was to investigate the alterations in gray matter volume and brain iron deposition in patients with svMCI. …”
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Cardiovascular risk burden, dementia risk and brain structural imaging markers: a study from UK Biobank by Ting Li, Jing Chen, Yan Zheng, Klodian Dhana, Geng Zong, Yuan Ma, Trudy Voortman, Wei Gan, Yaying Cao, Yonghua Hu, Changzheng Yuan, Jie Shen, Gaohong Zhu, Chengwu Feng

“…Comparing the high versus low tertile of FGCRS, the odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were 1.26 (1.12 to 1.41) for all-cause dementia, 1.67 (1.33 to 2.09) for Alzheimer’s disease and 1.53 (1.07 to 2.16) for vascular dementia (all ptrend<0.05). Incident stroke and coronary heart disease accounted for 14% (95% CI: 9% to 21%) of the association between FGCRS and all-cause dementia. …”
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