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Oct 22, 2023 · Vascular dementia is among the most common etiologies of major neurocognitive disorder (MND), affecting primarily older adults (>65), and it is the leading nondegenerative cause of dementia. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-V) subsumes all dementing diseases under the syndromic term MND. MND requires an acquired decline in one or more cognitive ...
- 2023/10/22
Mar 1, 2011 · This book presents current research from across the globe in the study of vascular dementia, including GRK2 over-expression in the context of early Alzheimer disease pathogenesis; vitamin deficiencies and vascular dementia; biofluid markers as potential markers for vascular dementia; and the epidemiology of vascular dementia.
Vascular dementia (VaD) is the second most common cause of dementia and a major health concern worldwide. A comprehensive review on VaD is warranted for better understanding and guidance for the practitioner. We provide an updated overview of the epidemiology, pathophysiological mechanisms, neuroimaging patterns as well as current diagnostic and therapeutic approaches.
Aug 1, 2021 · Highlights. •. Vascular mechanisms are increasingly recognized as a contributing factor to dementia in the elderly. •. Vascular dementia generally reflects a heterogeneity in terms of presentation related to the varying distributions of vascular involvement. •. Small vessel ischemic disease overlaps with both vascular and ...
- Shyamal C. Bir, Muhammad W. Khan, Vijayakumar Javalkar, Eduardo Gonzalez Toledo, Roger E. Kelley
- 2021
Nov 24, 2023 · Despite vascular cognitive impairment being a common type of cognitive impairment and dementia, research on care needs of people with vascular cognitive impairment or vascular dementia and their family caregivers is very limited. One retrospective medical record study (Jhang et al., 2020) stressed the importance of caregiver mood. We believe a ...
Sep 12, 2020 · Summary. Over the course of the last hundred years our understanding of dementia has undergone considerable change. For much of that time ‘senility’ was seen as an almost inevitable concomitant of ageing and was usually attributed to atherosclerosis. In the post-war period, a concept of multi-infarct dementia emerged, but at the same time ...
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May 15, 2003 · Abstract. Vascular dementia, caused by multiple small strokes, is the second commonest cause of dementia behind Alzheimer’s disease. In recent years there has been a radical reappraisal of the concept of vascular dementia and a move away from an Alzheimer-based diagnostic paradigm towards one more appropriately tailored for vascular disease.
