Vascular dementia cerebrovascular mechanisms and clinical management

• Other Authors: Paul, Robert H. (Editor), Cohen, Ronald (Editor), Ott, Brian R. (Editor), Salloway, Stephen (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, New Jersey Humana Press 2005
• Series: Current clinical neurology
• Subjects: Dementia, Vascular > physiopathology; Dementia, Vascular > therapy
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• Physical Description: xiii, 356 pages illustrations 26 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9781588293664; 1588293661

A multidisciplinary survey of our current understanding of the biological and clinical aspects of vascular disease. The authors describe its basic mechanisms, its clinical characteristics, its pharmacological management, and the use of neuroimaging methods to investigate it. The complex relationship between VaD and AD is also fully explored with chapters on how these processes interact and how one disease may lower the threshold for clinical expression of the other