In dementia with Lewy bodies, microscopic deposits in the brain known as 'Lewy bodies' cause damage to nerve cells. Many of the symptoms, such as loss of memory and reasoning skills, are similar to those in Alzheimer's disease. However, many people with this form of dementia also develop Parkinson-type symptoms, such as slowness, stiffness and tremor. Visual hallucinations and falls are also common.
Particular care should be taken with certain tranquillising medicines (neuroleptics), as these can be dangerous for people with dementia with Lewy bodies.
Dementia in Parkinson diseaseJames Parkinson first described the shaking palsy, emphasizing the classic motor symptoms of Parkinson disease. Friedreich Lewy has commented on the mental impairment in many patients with Parkinsonis
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Dementia with Lewy bodiesDementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) took many years to crystallize into a recognizable clinico-pathologic entity. Neuropathologic findings of a-synuclein lesions in Lewy bodies and neurites correspond to
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Dementia with Lewy bodiesThe advent of new immunostains have improved our ability to detect limbic and cortical Lewy bodies, and it is now evident that Dementa with Lewy bodies (DLB) is the second most common neurodegenerativ
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Lewy Body Dementia, from the Alzheimer's Society of CanadaLewy Body Dementia
Introduction
Dementia is a syndrome consisting of a number of symptoms that include loss of memory, judgment and reasoning, and changes in mood, behaviour and communication ab
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Lewy Body Dementia, from the Lewy Body Dementia AssociationWhat is LBD?
Facts:
Lewy body dementia (LBD) is a progressive brain disease and the second leading cause of degenerative dementia in the elderly. The clinical name, "dementia with Lewy bodies" (
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Nonalzheimer's DementiasAlzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia in the United States, with more than 5 million patients living with the disease in 2007.1 Many pharmacists work with AD patients on a regul
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