NOTCH3 and cerebral arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy: CADASIL (Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy) is a monogenic brain disorder, due to NOTCH3 mutations, characterized after a normal brain development, by the accumulation of brain tissue lesions of microvascular origin as soon as the 3rd or 4th decade (1).