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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 ...
Protein deposits, called Lewy bodies, develop in nerve cells in the brain regions involved in thinking, memory and movement (motor control). Lewy body dementia ...
This common dementia is caused by a buildup of proteins in the brain. It affects thinking, memory and movement.
A National Institutes of Health (NIH) initiative studies the proteins involved in Lewy body dementia to better characterize disease progression and identify ...
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 ...
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 ...
The objectives of this study are to determine the predictors of death within 6 months in individuals with Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB), to identify whether a ...
Generally, a Lewy body dementia diagnosis requires an ongoing decline in thinking skills, along with two of the following: visual hallucinations, Parkinsonism ...
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 ...
Despite affecting an estimated 1.4 million Americans, Lewy body dementia is still relatively unfamiliar to the public and physicians. According to Mayo Clinic ...
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