Mental disorders in Binswanger's disease

Subcortical arteriosclerotic encephalopathy, or Binswanger's disease (BD), is a special form of chronic progressive vascular disease of the brain, the main clinical manifestation of which is dementia in combination with a variety of neurological symptoms (subcortical, cerebellar, pseudobulbar and pyramidal syndromes and disorders of other pelvic organs) .). The genesis of the disease, primarily dementia syndrome, is based on diffuse lesion of the white matter (BV) of the cerebral hemispheres, caused by severe arteriosclerosis of the blood vessels supplying it.