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  1. Lewy body dementia - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic

    Lewy body dementia is the second most common type of dementia after Alzheimer's disease. Protein deposits called Lewy bodies develop in nerve cells in the brain ...

  2. Signs and symptoms of Lewy body dementia - Mayo Clinic News Network

    Lewy body dementia, also known as dementia with Lewy bodies, is the second most common type of progressive dementia after Alzheimer's disease dementia.

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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, ...

  6. Lewy Body Dementia: Unfamiliar With This Common Disorder? - Mayo Clinic News Network

    While the cause of Lewy body dementia is unclear, risk factors include being older than 60, being male and having a family member with Lewy body dementia. After ...

  7. Lewy body dementia - Diagnosis and treatment - Mayo Clinic

    Antipsychotic medicines aren't used for people with Lewy body dementia because they can make symptoms worse. No single test can diagnose Lewy body dementia. The ...

  8. Delving into Lewy Body Dementia - Mayo Clinic News Network

    Lewy body dementia may not be as well-known as Alzheimer's disease, but is the second-most progressive form of dementia after Alzheimer's disease.

  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. Mayo Clinic to coordinate new effort to expand medical research, expert care for Lewy body dementia patients

    “Lewy body dementia is chronically underdiagnosed, so we seek to address a decades-old challenge of finding and enrolling enough correctly diagnosed patients, ...