Vascular depression / 国际脑血管病杂志

ABSTRACT

The vascular depression is a subtype of depression.It has its specificity in clinical features,imaging,and treatment outcome etc.This article reviews the advances in research on the aspects of risk factors,pathogenesis,diagnosis,clinical features,and outcomes of vascular depression,particularly the vascular risk factors,steady-state changes in the neurovascular unit,immune cytokine activation,imaging characteristics of white matter damage and treatment of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation as well as its correlation with dementia and cardiocerebrovascular diseases.