Subclinical cerebrovascular disease inversely associates with learning ability: The NOMAS

Conclusions:
White matter hyperintensities, a marker of cerebral small vessel disease, may have an impact on learning slope. This suggests that verbal learning performance can be incorporated into neuropsychological measures for vascular cognitive impairment and that cerebrovascular disease discovered on imaging affects the ability to learn new information.

Source: Neurology - June 8, 2015 Category: Neurology Authors: Glazer, H., Dong, C., Yoshita, M., Rundek, T., Elkind, M. S. V., Sacco, R. L., DeCarli, C., Stern, Y., Wright, C. B. Tags: All Cerebrovascular disease/Stroke, Cognitive aging, Assessment of cognitive disorders/dementia ARTICLE Source Type: research