“…As well as being a risk factor for spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage (Samarasekera et al, 2012), CAA can result in cognitive deficits independently of AD (Arvanitakis et al, 2011;Boyle et al, 2015;Reijmer et al, 2015), although the exact interaction between these two processes remains unclear. Traditionally AD and SVCI have been described as having distinct neuroimaging profiles (Wardlaw et al, 2013b;Greenberg et al, 2014), but clinically differentiating between the two remains difficult, as both the cognitive symptoms and the imaging findings frequently overlap (Lee et al, 2011;Wardlaw et al, 2013a;Wardlaw et al, 2013b;Greenberg et al, 2014;Lee et al, 2014). Given this, identifying new markers that further improve our ability to discriminate between AD and SVCI remains both relevant and important, in particular with regard to recruitment for clinical trials investigating pharmacological interventions (Ahmed et al, 2014;Andrieu et al, 2015).…”