White matter dementia

White matter dementia (WMD) is a syndrome introduced in 1988 to highlight the potential of cerebral white matter disorders to produce cognitive loss of sufficient severity to qualify as dementia. Neurologists have long understood that such a syndrome can occur, but the dominance of gray matter as th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Christopher M. Filley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2012-09-01
Series:Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1756285612454323