Neurobehavioral features of vascular dementia (VaD)
What are the neurobehavioral characteristics of vascular dementia (VaD)?
Vascular dementia (VaD) is the second most common type of dementia, either alone or in combination with AD.
It is a highly heterogeneous entity commonly associated with executive dysfunction and relatively preserved verbal memory.
Cognitive impairment depends on the vessels involved and may onset in a stepwise manner.
Small vessel disease causing lacunar infarcts can cause a subcortical dementia, like Binswanger’s syndrome .
CADASIL is an autosomal dominant arteriopathy associated with mutations in the Notch 3 gene that can also cause dementia.
