Contributors. Preface. Section I: Clinical Aspects of CAA and CAA-related Hemorrhage. 1. Clinical aspects and diagnostic criteria of sporadic CAA-related hemorrhage; S.M. Greenberg. 2. Diagnosis of CAA during life. Neuroimaging of CAA; U. Bickel. 3. Vascular risk factors for Alzheimer's disease. An epidemiologic perspective; M.M.B. Breteler. 4. Cerebral microvascular and macrovascular disease in the aging brain; similarities and differences; H.V. Vinters. 5. ApoE genotype in relation to sporadic and Alzheimer-related CAA; M.O. McCarron, J.A.R. Nicoll. 6. Clinical and genetic aspects of hereditary cerebral hemorrhage with amyloidosis-Dutch type (HCHWA-D); M. Bornebroek, et al. 7. Genetics and neuropathology of hereditary cystatin C amyloid angiopathy (HCCAA); Í. Ólafsson, L. Thorsteinsson. Section III: Cellular and Molecular Pathology of CAA. 8. Neuropathologic features and grading of Alzheimer-related and sporadic CAA; H.V. Vinters, J.-P.G. Vonsattel. 9. Chemical analysis of amyloid beta protein in CAA; A.E. Roher, et al. 10. Immunohistochemical analysis of amyloid beta protein isoforms in CAA; H. Yamaguchi, M.L.C. Maat-Schieman. 11. Blood Brain Barrier dysfunction and cerebrovascular degeneration in Alzheimer's disease; R.N. Kalaria. 12. Abeta-associated proteins in cerebral amyloid angiopathy; R.M.W. de Waal, M.M. Verbeek. 13. Neuropathology of hereditary cerebral hemorrhage with amyloidosis-Dutch type; M.L.C. Maat-Schieman, et al. 14. Neuropathology and genetics of prion protein and Britishcerebral amyloid angiopathies; B. Ghetti, et al. Section IV: In Vitro and Animal Models of CAA. 15. Amyloid &bgr; protein internalization and production by canine smooth muscle cells; R. Prior, B. Urmoneit. 16. Degeneration of human cerebrovascular smooth muscle cells and pericytes caused by amyloid &bgr; protein; M.M. Verbeek, et al. 17. Vasoactivity of amyloid &bgr; peptides; D. Paris, et al. 18. CAA in trangenic mouse models of Alzheimer's disease. What can we learn from APP transgenic mouse models?; G.M. Cole, et al. 19. Cerebral amyloid angiopathy in aged dogs and nonhuman primates; L.C. Walker. 20. Vascular transport of Alzheimer's amyloid &bgr; peptides and apolipoproteins; B.V. Zlokovic, et al. Index.