Binswanger's disease
subcortical leukoencephalopathy
subcortical arteriosclerotic encephalopathy

Leukoaraiosis has been reported to be an initial stage of Binswanger's disease but this evolution does not always happen.

Alois Alzheimer first used the phrase "Binswanger's disease" in 1902.

Binswanger's disease is a type of subcortical vascular dementia caused by white matter atrophy to the brain.

Binswanger's Disease has shown correlations with impairment in executive functions, but have normal episodic or declarative memory.

In 1962 J. Olszewski published an extensive review of all literature about Binswanger's disease so far.

Because of this, the specific names of these types of this dementia, including Binswanger's disease were lost.

Lawyers acting for Pearce claimed he suffers from Binswanger's disease, a rare form of dementia that can change the way people think.

Alzheimer renamed this disease Binswanger's disease.

Binswanger's disease has no cure and has been shown to be the most severe impairment of all of the vascular dementia.

Colonel Grove was diagnosed with Binswanger's Disease, which is a rare form of dementia characterized by lesions in the brain.

He retired to Bonn, where he died in 1990 at the age of 83 after a long illness, suffering from Diabetes mellitus and Binswanger's disease.

It has been shown that current Alzheimer's medication, donepezil (trade name Aricept), may help Binswanger's Disease patients as well .

Because Binswanger's disease affects flow processing speed and causes impaired concentration, the ability to do everyday tasks such as managing finances, preparing a meal and driving may become very difficult.

Binswanger's disease can usually be diagnosed with a CT scan, MRI, and a proton MR spectrography in addition to clinical examination.

There are many diseases similar to Binswanger's disease including CADASIL syndrome and Alzheimer's disease, which makes this specific type of white matter damage hard to diagnose.

Vascular dementia also occurs, but this in turn may be due to underlying conditions (including antiphospholipid syndrome, CADASIL, MELAS, homocystinuria, moyamoya and Binswanger's disease).

Another cause is an exceptionally rare neurological disease called Binswanger's disease, causing dementia; it is a rare form of multi-infarct dementia, and is one of the neurological syndromes associated with hypertension.

Because of the complicated history of Binswanger's disease and the fact that it was overlooked as a disease at all for so many years, leads us to believe that many patients have been misdiagnosed as Alzheimer's for years.

Due to their vascular etiology, the symptoms and physical findings associated with Binswanger's disease may suddenly worsen due to stroke, stabilize and then improve for a brief time, but the patient's overall condition continues to progress as the blood vessels become increasingly obstructed.

It has been shown that Binswanger's disease targets the vessels in this zone of the subcortex, but spares the microvessel and capillaries which may be attributed to a difference between Alzheimer's and Binswanger's disease.

In the late 19th century vascular dementia was heavily studied, however by 1910 scientists were lumping Binswanger's disease with all other subcortical and cortical dementia and labeling everything senile dementia despite all previous research and efforts to distinguish this disease from the rest.

Subcortical arteriosclerotic encephalopathy (SAE), also called lower-body parkinsonism, and cerebral ataxia are two other gait disorders whose symptoms seem to closely resemble that of Parkinson's.