Beyond mild cognitive impairment: vascular cognitive impairment, no dementia (VCIND)

Vascular cognitive impairment in dementia.

Vascular risk factors and cerebrovascular disease are common causes of dementia. Shared risk factors for vascular dementia and Alzheimer's disease, as well as frequent coexistence of these pathologies in cognitively impaired older people, suggests convergence of the aetiology, prevention and management of the commonest dementias affecting older people. In light of this understanding, the cognit...

Vascular measures on MRI in mild cognitive impairment and dementia

Profile of Cognitive Complaints in Vascular Mild Cognitive Impairment and Mild Cognitive Impairment

Objective. Vascular mild cognitive impairment (VaMCI) is differentiated from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) by the presence of vascular events such as stroke or small vessel disease. Typically, MCI and VaMCI patients present with subjective complaints regarding cognition; however, little is known about the specific nature of these complaints. We aimed to create a profile of subjective cognitiv...

Hyperfamiliarity in Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment.

INTRODUCTION Hyperfamiliarity, a phenomenon in which feelings of familiarity are evoked by novel stimuli, is well described in epilepsy and the lesioned brain. Abnormality of familiarity in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) have also been described in the literature, but more from a neuropsychological approach perspective. Currently, there is a lack of study on the re...

Nonconventional Treatments of Dementia/Mild Cognitive Impairment

If current population trends continue and treatments that arrest or reverse Alzheimer disease (AD) are not found, the number of patients with AD in the United States is projected to increase to more than 13 million by the year 2050.1 Numbers of persons afflicted with severe cognitive impairment caused by traumatic brain injury and stroke also continue to increase. Developing effective and cost-...