A recent study provided key insights into brain degeneration in DLB, which may help clinicians better monitor this ...

A new study from Karolinska Institutet and Mayo Clinic has revealed important insights into brain degeneration in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB ... Doctors use an imaging technique called ...

Dementia is a gradual decline ... deposits (cellular inclusions) called Lewy bodies, which are collections of an abnormal protein called alpha-synuclein. Lewy bodies are found throughout the outer ...

Lewy body dementia (LBD) is a degenerative disease of the brain. The disease causes symptoms that include visual hallucinations, sleep behavior disorder, cognitive (thinking) fluctuations ...

These scans can show if there are problems with the blood flow in the brain. If the specialist thinks you could have dementia with Lewy bodies or Parkinson’s disease dementia, you may have a scan of ...

How is Lewy body dementia ... brain or psychiatric disorders. Many people don’t receive an accurate diagnosis until their symptoms become more advanced, Dr. Gomperts says. An array of tests and ...

A new study from McGill University has found that a simple blood test could help predict the risk of developing dementia ...

The disorder is also associated with a very high risk of Parkinson's disease and a related condition called Dementia with Lewy Bodies ... published in the journal Brain, also suggests the early ...

But an autopsy revealed he also suffered from Lewy body dementia (LBD), a brain disorder that affects more than a million Americans. According to The Alzheimer's Association, LBD is a type of ...

dementia with Lewy body, frontotemporal lobe dementia, mild cognitive impairment, brain tumors, epilepsy, stroke, traumatic brain injury, pre/post-surgical evaluation and a host of other neurological ...