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Vascular dementia is defined as a clinical syndrome of acquired intellectual impairment resulting from a brain injury due to a cerebrovascular disorder. It incorporates various vascular pathophysiological mechanisms and changes...
Neuroimaging is a vascular and became an essential method to detecting and evaluating brain pathology. It is also important in evaluation of dementia, especially of vascular dementia. This article review...
Vascular dementia is one of the few remediable causes of dementia among the eldery. Prevention of the disease can be best achieved by primary or secondary prevention of controllable risk...
Dementia is a syndrome of global cognitive disability and is not a single disease. There are many risk factors of dementia, and some factors are adjustable. Therefore it is important...
Differential diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and vascular dementia(VaD) has an important bearing on the diagnosis and management of patients with dementia. This article provides a guideline for the differential...
Dementia can be defined as an acquired persistent impairment of intellectual func-tion with compromise in at least three of the mental activities such as language, memory, visuospatial skill, emotion or...
Dementia is one of the most common psychiatric problem in the elderly. According to the increase of the older people with dementia, management of dementia need to be systemized at...
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to compare the changes in the awareness and attitudes of the dementia subjects before and after the project, and to provide a basis...
Recent advances in brain imaging research are remarkable. Among them, many results from a variety of neuroimaging modalities in Alzheimer's dementia accompanied by the development and growing of imaging techniques...
In the year 2008, the Korean government has launched the long-term care insurance, which has served much of social service needs of the disabled elderly people. However, there are some...
Hachinski coined the term 'multi-infarct dementia', which now changed to 'vascular demntia', and used the Hachiski Ischemia Score (HIS) to differentiate multi-infarct dementia from Alzheimer's disease since 1974. The past...
As the average life span is extended, the elderly population has increased, as has the incidence of certain diseases such as dementia. In addition, an increased number of studies linking...
Dementia is one of major problem worldwide, and leading to great social and economic expense for medical and family care. Many of medical treatments have been introduced and performed to...
Dementia is a syndrome of acquired intellectual impairment produced by brain dysfunction and has tremendous consequences for the patients' families, and society. Recently treatment options to manage the symptoms of...
The author briefly describes background, aims and organizational scheme of the Seoul Dementia Management Project (SDMP) and introduces the Seoul Metropolitan Center for Dementia (SMCD), which is responsible for planning...
Dementia is the syndrome declined the human cognitive function, especially the memory. It is important that each subdomain of cognition must be evaluated in the diagnosis of dementia. The neuropsychological...