New aspects of mri research in the differential diagnosis of binswanger disease

Abstract

Vascular dementia is a major socially important problem worldwide. With an increase in the elderly population, the relevance of cognitive impairment has grown greater number of signs of Binswanger’s disease on MRI is associated with a lower cognitive impairment in healthy elderly people, while a decrease in cognitive functions occurs in parallel with an increase in the manifestations of white matter pathology. In this article, Binswanger’s disease particular features and clinical manifestations were reviewed in order to clarify diagnostic confusion.