Open AccessDemographic Features and Neuropsychological Correlates in a Cohort of 200 Patients with Vascular Cognitive Decline Due to Cerebral Small Vessel Disease
Author(s) -
Thomas Gregor Issac,
Sadanandavalli Retnaswami Chandra,
Jamuna Rajeswaran,
Rita Christopher,
Mariamma Philip
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
indian journal of psychological medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 0975-1564
pISSN - 0253-7176
DOI - 10.4103/0253-7176.178778
Subject(s) - dementia , neuropsychology , verbal fluency test , psychology , vascular dementia , cognition , cognitive decline , neuropsychological assessment , magnetic resonance imaging , neuropsychological test , neuroimaging , disease , psychiatry , medicine , cardiology , audiology , clinical psychology , radiology
Vascular dementia is the second most common form of dementia and is potentially reversible. Small vessel disease (SVD) closely mimics degenerative dementia in view of its sub-acute onset and progressive course. Therefore, unlike large vessel disease, Hachinski Ischemic scale score may not always reflect vascular cognitive decline resulting in diagnostic and therapeutic confusions. Therefore, there is a need for detailed neuropsychological assessment for various cognitive domains for early identification of vascular cognitive decline as it carries a very good long term prognosis for cognitive morbidity, unlike degenerative dementias.