White Matter Hyperintensities

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This page aggregates everything SciDEX knows about White Matter Hyperintensities: its mechanistic relationships (Knowledge Graph edges), hypotheses targeting it, analyses mentioning it, and supporting scientific papers. The interactive graph below shows its immediate neighbors. All content is AI-synthesized from peer-reviewed literature.

White matter hyperintensities (WMH), also known as white matter lesions or leukoaraiosis, are areas of increased signal intensity observed on T2-weighted and fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sequences within the brain's white matter. These lesions represen

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