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Multiinfarct and Microinfarct Dementia

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Cerebral Ischemia and Dementia

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Abstract

Man’s thinking has always been channelled by the work and thoughts of his predecessors. Attempts to break away are difficult, and the path rocky. Roy and Sherrington, in 1890, first formulated a rational hypothesis about regulation of blood flow to the brain: “The chemical products of cerebral metabolism contained in the lymph which bathes the walls of the arterioles of the brain can cause variations of calibre of the cerebral vessels. In this reaction the brain possesses an intrinsic mechanism by which its vascular supply can be varied locally in correspondence with local variations of functional activity”[42].

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  1. Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, University Hospital, University of Western Ontario, P.O. Box 5339, London, Ontario, N6A 5A5, Canada

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  1. Neurologische Universitätsklinik, Sigmund-Freud-Str. 25, W-5300, Bonn 1, Germany

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  2. Physiologisches Institut der Universität, Im Neuenheimer Feld 326, W-6900, Heidelberg, Germany

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  3. Abt. für Pathochemie und Allg. Neurochemie, Pathologisches Institut der Universität, Im Neuenheimer Feld 220-221, W-6900, Heidelberg, Germany

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Hastak, S.M., Hachinski, V.C. (1991). Multiinfarct and Microinfarct Dementia. In: Hartmann, A., Kuschinsky, W., Hoyer, S. (eds) Cerebral Ischemia and Dementia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76208-6_26

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