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1. Mayo Clinic Minute: What is Lewy body dementia?

   Dementia with Lewy bodies is a disease that can be tricky to diagnose. That's because symptoms are often similar to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

2. Leading NIH's Lewy body dementia initiative - Mayo Clinic

   Lewy body dementia is a progressive, incurable disease that causes severe physical and cognitive decline. Although it's the second most common dementia after ...

3. Studying the Devastating Dementia You've Probably Never Heard of

   Lewy body dementia gets its name from “Lewy bodies,” abnormal deposits containing a protein called alpha-synuclein. Clumps of this protein form in the brain, ...

4. New international guidelines issued on dementia with Lewy bodies

   An estimated 1.4 million Americans have dementia with Lewy bodies, making it the second-leading cause of dementia after Alzheimer's disease. A degenerative and ...

5. Mayo Clinic Minute: Lewy Body Dementia 101

   Mayo Clinic experts say Lewy body dementia is the second most prevalent form of dementia, next to Alzheimer's disease, yet many people are not aware of this ...

6. Understanding Lewy Body Dementia - Mayo Clinic News Network

   Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia, but another type called dementia with Lewy bodies, or DLB, comes in second.

7. Researchers create 'mini brains' to model Lewy body dementia and pinpoint treatments - Mayo Clinic News Network

   Lewy body dementia (LBD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that shares traits with both Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease but can be more ...

8. Understanding Lewy Body Dementia

   Some experts say It's the most common disorder you may not have ever heard of. Brad Boeve, M.D.. Neurology. Mayo Clinic. “Dementia with Lewy bodies, or DLB, as ...

9. Study: Lack of brain shrinkage may help predict who develops dementia with Lewy bodies - Mayo Clinic News Network

   During that time, 61 people, or 38 percent, developed Alzheimer's disease, and 20 people, or 13 percent, progressed to probable dementia with Lewy bodies.

10. Lewy body dementia - Doctors and departments - Mayo Clinic

    This common dementia is caused by a buildup of proteins in the brain. It affects thinking, memory and movement.