Vascular dementia : risk factors, diagnosis, and treatment / Sarah R. Jacobsen, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jacobsen, Sarah R.

Series:

Neuroscience Research Progress

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vascular dementia.

Dementia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hauppauge, NY : Nova Science, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Vascular dementia is the second most common form of dementia after Alzheimer's disease in older adults. This book presents research from across the globe in the study of vascular dementia, including GRK2 over-expression in the context of early Alzheimer disease pathogenesis.

Contents:

Vascular risk factors, brain changes, and cognition : the role of metabolic syndrome / Bàrbara Segura, María Ángeles Jurado

Oxidative stress induced vascular hypoperfusion, mitochondrial failure are missing links for the development of Alzheimer disease / Gjumrakch Aliev ... [et al.]

GRK2 overexpression is a primary hallmark of vascular hypoperfusion and mitochondrial lesions during early Alzheimer disease : new target for drug treatment? / Gjumrakch Aliev ... [et al.]

Mitochondrion selective antioxidants as drug treatments for Alzheimer disease / Gjumrakch Aliev ... [et al.]

What are the roles of vitamins in vascular dementia? / Emel Koseoglu

Vascular factors on Alzheimer's disease / Iulek Gorczevski ... [et al.]

New concepts on vascular dementia / Matheus Roriz-Cruz

Are vascular, Alzheimer, and mixed dementias distinctive entities? / Nora Silvana Vigliecca

Biofluid protein biomarkers for the diagnosis of vascular dementia / Anja Hviid Simonsen, Gunhild Waldemar

Apathy associated with subclinical brain ischemic lesions and vascular risk factors / Hiroshi Yao ... [et al.]

Caudate nucleus volumes in the leukoaraiosis and disability in the elderly study (LADIS) : a pilot case-control study of longitudinal change / Jeffrey Chee Leong Looi ... [et al.]

Neuroepidemiology of vascular dementia / Masaaki Nakatsuka, Kenichi Meguro.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61122-679-1

OCLC:

730450206