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

    Protein deposits, called Lewy bodies, develop in nerve cells in the brain regions involved in thinking, memory and movement (motor control). Lewy body dementia ...

  2. 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 ...

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

    This is a confocal image of a Lewy body from the brain of a patient with Lewy body dementia double stained for tyrosine hydroxylase (the enzyme that makes ...

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

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

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

    A National Institutes of Health (NIH) initiative studies the proteins involved in Lewy body dementia to better characterize disease progression and identify ...

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

    Mayo Clinic neurologist Dr. Rodolfo Savica says those with Lewy body dementia often show traits of both Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, leading to ...

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

    Despite affecting an estimated 1.4 million Americans, Lewy body dementia is still relatively unfamiliar to the public and physicians. According to Mayo Clinic ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. Mayo Clinic Receives $5.75 Million Gift for Lewy Body Dementia Research

    This is a confocal image of a Lewy body from the brain of a patient with Lewy body dementia double stained for tyrosine hydroxylase (the enzyme that makes ...

  10. Lewy Body Dementia - Mayo Clinic Research

    The Memory Disorders Lab led by Neill R. Graff-Radford, M.D., at Mayo Clinic studies Lewy body dementia to identify early risk factors for better treatment ...