[Editorial] Vascular disease and neurodegeneration: advancing together

On Feb 19, 2017, immediately before the International Stroke Conference, the MarkVCID consortium held its first meeting in Houston (TX, USA). The focus of this new research consortium is on understanding small vessel disease and its contributions to vascular cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID). For too long, research in dementia has neglected the most common comorbidity in elderly patients: cerebrovascular disease. Funders are now reversing this trend and encouraging research into the role of brain vessels in neurodegeneration, and MarkVCID is a momentous initiative in that direction.
Source: Lancet Neurology - Category: Neurology Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research