Basal ganglia PVS burden independently contributes to worse longitudinal executive function and visuospatial skills independent of other SVD markers, highlighting PVS as an emerging marker of domain-specific cognitive decline in aging. Although causation cannot be established, findings further support PVS as a vascular contributor to deep brain structure damage underlying cognitive decline over time.
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