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  1. Mayo Clinic Q and A: Lewy body dementia and Alzheimer's disease - what's the difference?

    Generally, a Lewy body dementia diagnosis requires an ongoing decline in thinking skills, along with two of the following: visual hallucinations, Parkinsonism ...

  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. 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 ...

  4. 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, ...

  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. 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 ...

  8. 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 ...

  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. Dementia - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic

    Lewy bodies are balloonlike clumps of protein. They have been found in the brains of people with Lewy body dementia, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease ...