Near-infrared imaging has been considered as a solution to provide high quality photographs in dim lighting conditions. This imaging system captures two types of multimodal images: one is nearinfrared gray image (NGI) and the other is the visible color image (VCI). NGI is noise-free but it is grayscale, whereas the VCI has colors but it contains noise. Moreover, there exist serious edge and bri...

Advances in our understanding of vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) have occurred during 2010 concerning different areas. Although VCI remains a broad concept, whose borders are not yet well defined, a considerable body of literature is published every year concerning the relation between cardiovascular (CV) risk factors and diseases, neuroimaging features of vascular lesions, and cognitive pe...

The association between cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) - in the form of white matter lesions, infarctions, and hemorrhages - with vascular cognitive impairment (VCI), has mostly been deduced from observational studies. Pathological conditions affecting the small vessels of the brain and leading to SVD have suggested plausible molecular mechanisms involved in vascular damage and their impac...

The purpose of this study was to determine the diagnostic accuracy of medial temporal lobe atrophy (MTA) on MRI for distinguishing Alzheimer's disease from other dementias in autopsy confirmed cases, and to determine pathological correlates of MTA in Alzheimer's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and vascular cognitive impairment (VCI). We studied 46 individuals who had both antemortem MR...

OBJECTIVES The objective of the present study was to determine the incidence of acute spinal cord injuries (ASCI) in all forms of horse riding in New South Wales (NSW) for the period 1976-1996. Other aims of the present study were to compare and contrast ASCI with vertebral column injuries (VCI) without neurological damage and to define appropriate safety measures in relation to spinal injury i...

Objective To analyze the clinical characteristics between neurogenic and non-neurogenic cause of vocal cord immobility (VCI). Methods The researchers retrospectively reviewed clinical data of patients who underwent laryngeal electromyography (LEMG). LEMG was performed in the bilateral cricothyroid and thyroarytenoid muscles. A total of 137 patients were enrolled from 2011 to 2016, and they we...

BACKGROUND ischaemic cerebrovascular small vessel disease (SVD) is a prevalent and under-diagnosed condition that triggers vascular cognitive impairment (VCI). OBJECTIVE to describe the neuropsychological and clinical profiles in SVD (Binswanger's disease, BD; lacunar state, LS) from the clinician's perspective at the VCI stage. METHODS a total of 1257 patients admitted to a tertiary center...

Vascular cognitive impairment (VCI), including its severe form, vascular dementia (VaD), is the second most common form of dementia. The genetic etiology of sporadic VCI remains largely unknown. We previously conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of all published genetic association studies of sporadic VCI prior to 6 July 2012, which demonstrated that APOE (ɛ4, ɛ2) and MTHFR (rs180113...

Age-related cognitive impairment is arguably the greatest looming threat to aging populations in both the developed and developing world. Emerging evidence indicates that cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) is a major contributor to cognitive impairment, highlighting the importance of improved understanding of the molecular and physiological mechanisms leading to vascular brain injury. As a res...

We used the MILO (Multi-Item Localization) task to characterise performance of a group older adults diagnosed with mild moderate vascular cognitive impairment (VCI). The is designed explore temporal context visual search and in addition measuring overall completion time, provides profile serial reaction time (SRT) patterns across all items sequence. Of particular interest here Vanish/Remain man...