Geriatrics & Aging

Neurocognitive & Cardio logical disorders

Cardiovascular (CV) disease and its risk factors adversely affect brain and neurocognitive function prior to stroke, dementia, or mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Progression of neurocognitive and neurobiological impairments may be associated with CV risk and severe manifestations of the disease. In models ranging from children to the elderly, a broad spectrum of CV risk factors and subclinical and clinical CV diseases have been related to decrements in cognitive function and cognitive decline across multiple domains of performance including executive functions, attention, learning and memory, speed perceptual. -Motor, among others.