Vascular dementia.
Epidemiological, clinical, neuropsychological and neuroimaging features characterise vascular dementia (VaD) from other dementias of non-Alzheimer type. VaD does not represent a single entity, but quite a large group of conditions characterised by different pathophysiological correlates and various clinical findings. Subcortical VaD, in particular, is considered as a model of VaD because its well-defined diagnostic criteria allow identification of a homogeneous category for a better approach to investigation in diagnosis and treatment of vascular dementia.
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U.C. Malattie Cerebrovascolari/Stroke Unit, I.R.C.C.S. Fondazione Istituto Neurologico C. Mondino, Via Mondino 2, I-27100 Pavia, Italy. giuseppe.micieli@mondino.it
D015140:Dementia, Vascular / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D009457:Neuroglia / Q000473:pathology; D012307:Risk Factors