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Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY.
Despite its importance and widespread usage, the term mixed dementia, referring to the coexistence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and vascular dementia (VsD), has been ill-defined and poorly conceptualized. The authors review the use of the term mixed dementia in neuropathological and clinical research. As a result of recent developments in the categorization of dementias, they recommend discarding the term mixed dementia in favor of a more precise terminology based on AD and VsD concurrently meeting established criteria for each diagnosis.
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