Diseases affecting the brain contribute to a substantial proportion of morbidity and mortality
in the general population. Conditions such as stroke, dementia and cognitive impairment …

Cardiac and cerebrovascular diseases are currently the leading causes of mortality and
disability worldwide. Both the heart and brain display similar vascular anatomy, with large …

Background and purpose A subset of ischaemic stroke patients with atrial fibrillation (AF)
have ischaemic stroke despite anticoagulation. We sought to determine the association …

Background White matter hyperintensities (WMHs) are a major risk factor for stroke and
dementia, but their pathogenesis is incompletely understood. It has been debated how much …

Abstract Purpose of Review Atrial fibrillation (AF) and dementia are both prevalent diseases
in aging societies, which exert a great economic burden worldwide. Although a handful of …

Background: Cardioembolic strokes are common however atrial fibrillation, the most
common cause, is often asymptomatic and difficult to detect. There is evidence that infarct …

Background Atrial fibrillation (AF) is associated with stroke and MRI features of cerebral
tissue damage but its impact on levels of serum neurofilament light chain (sNFL), an …

Growing evidence suggests that atrial fibrillation (AF), in addition to its thromboembolic risk,
is a risk factor for cognitive impairment (CI) via several pathways and mechanisms, further …

This article presents two algorithms developed based on two different techniques, from
clusterization theory, namely k-means clustering technique and Fuzzy C-means technique …

Background It is likely that a proportion of poststroke cognitive impairment is sometimes
attributable to unidentified prestroke decline; prestroke cognitive function is also clinically …