An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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LASSEN, Niels Alexander

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Multi-infarct dementia. A cause of mental deterioration in the elderly.

Lancet 2, 207-210, 1974.

The authors showed that contrary to the prevailing view that most dementias were caused by hardened brain arteries (cerebral atherosclerosis), most were multi-infarct dementias—dementias caused by multiple, small, often imperceptible strokes.



Subjects: NEUROLOGY › Neurovascular Disorders › Stroke