Ahmed Reda Abdallah sherif

Cognitive impairment in patients with cerebral small vessel disease / اضطرابات الوظائف المعرفية فى مرضى الأوعية الدماغية الصغيرة Ahmed Reda Abdallah sherif ; Supervised Omar Amin Elserafy , Mohammad Elsayed Elawady , Mona Abdelfattah Nada - Cairo : Ahmed Reda Abdallah sherif , 2014 - 124 P. : charts , facsimiles ; 30cm

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Neuropsychiatry

Background: some investigators studied the relation between small vessel disease and cognitive functions and they found that, patients with small vessel disease performed more poorly than healthy subjects in some cognitive tests. Objectives: The aim of the study is to assess the relationship between MRI finding of two types of small vessel disease(Isolated lacunar infarction and ischemic leukoariosis) and their risk factor with the neuropsychological tests performance



Mild cognitive impairment MRI brain Small vessel disease