PLENARY LECTURES
INCIDENCE, RISK FACTORS AND PROGNOSIS OF POST-STROKE DEMENTIA: REVIEW OF EVIDENCE
V. Feigin, New Zealand

INVITED LECTURES
THE PRIMARY PATHOGENETIC ROLE OF VASCULAR CONTAINS VASOACTIVE SUBSTANCES, HYPOPERFUSION, MITOCHONDRIA FAILURE AND OXIDATIVE STRESS IN AGING AND ALZHEIMER DISEASE
G. Aliev, USA

THE USE OF TRANSGENIC ANIMALS TO STUDY TAUOPATHIES
J.Avila, Spain

CSF AS OUTCOME MEASURE:
K. Blennow, Sweden and K. Iqbal, USA

AGE-RELATED EVOLUATION OF VASCULATURE IN THE HUMAN HIPPOCAMPUS
C. Bouras, Switzerland

VASCULAR DEMENTIA WITHOUT AMNESIA
A. Carota, Switzerland

γ -SECRETASE-ASSOCIATED PRESENILIN-DEPENDENT CONTROL OF CELL DEATH
F. Checler, France

DIRECT APP PHOSPHORYLATION DETERMINES ITS INTRACELLULAR FATE
O. da Cruz e Silva, Portugal

PROGRESSION OF CEREBRAL WHITE MATTER LESIONS - CLINICAL AND RADIOLOGICAL CORRELATIONS
C. Enginzer, Austria

ALPHA LIPOIC ACID EFFECTS ON MITOCHONDRIAL ENZYMES IN POST MORTEM AD BRAIN
L. Frölich, Germany

AGE-RELATED CHANGES IN THE VALIDITY OF CLINICAL CRITERIA FOR VASCULAR DEMENTIA
P. Giannakopoulos, Switzerland

NON-COGNITIVE CLINICAL MARKERS OF VASCULAR DEMENTIA
J. Ghika, Switzerland

BIOCHEMICAL FACTS: HUMAN STUDIES
J. Ghiso, USA

COGNITIVE CONSEQUENCES OF THALAMIC, BASAL GANGLIA AND DEEP WHITE MATTER LACUNES IN BRAIN AGING AND DEMENTIA
G. Gold, Switzerland

MIXED DEMENTIA: NEUROPATHOLOGICAL EVALUATION
K. Jellinger, Austria

CLINICAL PROFILES
A. Korczyn, Israel

COGNITIVE IMPACT OF HIPPOCAMPAL ALZHEIMER DISEASE PATHOLOGY AND MICROVASCULAR STRUCTURE IN THE OLDEST-OLD
E. Kövari, Switzerland

SHORT-TERM OF EVOLUTION AS A MARKER OF VASCULAR DEMENTIA VS. ALZHEIMER DISEASE
G.L. Lenzi, Italy

SINGLE LACUNAR STROKE AND ISCHEMIC LEUKOARAOIOSIS - DIFFERENT TYPES OF SMALL VESSEL DISEASE?
H. Markus, UK

BRAIN MITOCHONDRIA AS A LINK BETWEEN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND DIABETES
P. Moreira, Portugal

VASCULAR OXIDATIVE STRESS IN ALZHEIMER DISEASE
G. Perry, USA

SUBCORTICAL LESIONS AND CORTICAL FUNCTION: EVIDENCE FROM CEREBRAL METABOLIC STUDIES
B.R. Reed, USA

TARGETING APOPTOSIS IN NEUROLOGIC DISORDERS
C. Rodrigues, Portugal

DENIAL AND ANOSOGNOSIA: THE ACUTE STROKE "DEMENTIA" SYNDROME
P. Vuilleumier, Switzerland

NEUROCHEMICAL EARLY AND DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSTICS OF ALZHEIMER´S DEMENTIA
J. Wiltfang, Germany