There are many causes of dementia, the most common form being Alzheimer's disease, where memory loss is the most prominent feature. Lewy body dementia contains both Parkinson’s disease dementia (PDD) ...

In a new study, dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) has been associated with the deposition of amyloid-β in the brain. According to Edison and colleagues, these results indicate that most patients ...

“Until then, I had the common view of dementia, that it starts with memory loss,” says Des. “Lewy body meant nothing to me.” This is probably true for most of us. So how much do we know ...

This is because anosmia, or the loss of sense of smell, has been linked to dementia and can be an early sign of Alzheimer’s disease, Lewy Body dementia, and Parkinson’s disease. This could ...

[24] The cognitive impairment observed in INPH has some similarity to other subcortical dementias, including Parkinson's disease, diffuse Lewy body disease and vascular dementia. The absence of ...

have defined new biologic and clinical biomarkers for better identifying patients with different stages of Parkinson's disease and Lewy body dementia, according to a recent study published in npj ...

Monitoring alpha-synuclein aggregation is of great interest for studying the pathogenesis of synucleinopathies, a group of neurodegenerative diseases that includes Parkinson's disease (PD), dementia ...