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    Alzheimer's_Dementia
    About the CNIC
    6 Jul 2026
    Alzheimer's & Dementia: A new imaging technique locates microthrombi that worsen Alzheimer’s disease, opening the way to personalized anticoagulant therapy

    This tool paves the way for identifying patients who would be suitable candidates for treatment with anticoagulant therapy already available at the clinic 
    Participantes en el simposio ‘Understanding the Neurovascular Network to Prevent Dementia'
    About the CNIC
    4 Dec 2025
    “Understanding the Neurovascular Network to Prevent Dementia”: why understanding the neurovascular network matters for dementia prevention
    3D reconstructions of superior (left) and inferior (right) brain regions, showing regions with lower metabolism associated with the presence of atherosclerotic plaques in the carotid arteries. The color code indicates the magnitude of the observation (yellow, strong association; red, lower association). Gray indicates areas showing no association with carotid plaque presence
    Research
    15 Feb 2021
    JACC: Spanish scientists uncover early links between cardiovascular risk and brain metabolism

    Among the modifiable cardiovascular risk factors showing a close association with reduced brain metabolism, the research team found that the most important is hypertension
    María Ángeles Moro
    About the CNIC
    11 Feb 2020
    "Various diseases and all very mechanistically different, are included under the name of vascular dementia, or better called, cognitive vascular deterioration"

    María Ángeles Moro leads the CNIC's Neurovascular Pathophysiology Laboratory.