The intent of Vascular Dementia: Cerebrovascular Mechanisms and Clinical Management is to address the many recent advances in cardiovascular and cerebrovascular medicine and the impact of these on the lives of older adults by examining the state-of-the-art research on vascular dementia (VaD). A distinguishing feature of this work is its interdisciplinary nature. We have assembled work from contributors in multiple related fields, including both human and animal studies, in order to advance our collective understanding of VaD