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Vascular and Mixed Dementia

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Binswanger’s disease; Multi-infarct dementia; Poststroke dementia; Vascular dementia; Vascular cognitive dysfunction; Vascular cognitive impairment; Vascular neurocognitive disorder

Definition

As indicated by the number of synonyms, the definition of vascular dementia (VaD) is yet to be agreed across the world. There are two main issues: first, whether dementia is an appropriate term to capture the state that arises due to cognitive decline and, second, the delimiting of the degree or type of vascular disease that can be said to be causally linked to this state. There is a third, subsidiary issue, and that is whether the definition is being made for the purpose of the rigorous nature of research or the less exacting requirements of clinical practice. At present, there are three main definitions: (1) the NINDS-AIREN criteria (Roman et al. 1993) for vascular dementia, usually applied in research; (2) the DSM-V criteria (American Psychiatric Association 2013) for vascular...

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  1. Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

    John M. Starr

  2. Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre and Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, 7 George Square, EH8 9JZ, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

    Katherine E. Walesby

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Starr, J.M., Walesby, K.E. (2016). Vascular and Mixed Dementia. In: Pachana, N. (eds) Encyclopedia of Geropsychology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-080-3_313-1

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