Non-Alzheimer dementias

Key issues reviewed include the clinical diagnosis and pharmacological trea tment of dementia with Lewy bodies, key literature pertaining to the overla p of vascular and neurodegenerative pathology, the potential importance of microvascular disease and the possible role of carotid sinus hypersensitivi ty as an attributable cause. Also covered are recent developments in the ge netics of 'non-Alzheimer' dementias. Curr Opin Psychiatry 13:409-414. (C) 2 000 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.