Disease or Syndrome
Binswanger disease
Definitions related to binswanger disease:
  • A form of dementia characterized by brain lesions in the deep white-matter, also known as subcortical dementia.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • (binswanger's dementia) A type of dementia caused when blood flow is interrupted to the white matter of the brain, which lies beneath the cerebral cortex.
    Harvard Dictionary of Health Terms
    Harvard Medical Publishing, 2011
  • Binswanger's disease is a type of dementia caused by widespread, microscopic areas of damage to the deep layers of white matter in the brain. Most affected people experience progressive memory loss and deterioration of intellectual abilities (dementia); urinary urgency or incontinence; and an abnormally slow, unsteady gait (style of...
    NIH Genetic and Rare Diseases
    National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
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