Jackie Bezos, mother of Jeff Bezos, has died at 78 after battling Lewy body dementia, a complex neurological disorder that ...

Lewy bodies are named after FH Lewy, the German doctor who first identified them. Lewy bodies cause a range of symptoms, some of which are shared by Alzheimer’s disease and some by Parkinson’s disease ...

In this video, James E. Galvin, MD, MPH, discusses the SHIMMER study, presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International ...

Linked to the distribution of specific proteins in the brain, Lewy body dementia has proven to be quite a challenging ...

Lewy body dementia in a patient with decades of schizophrenia highlights the need for regular reassessment to avoid ...

In 2010, Judy Kauser, then 68, started having pains in her leg. It would take another two years before Judy was diagnosed with dementia with Lewy bodies. The Lewy Body Dementia Association ...

22 Dec 2015 Marked by degeneration of both the mind and the body, dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) has for the past 20 years languished on the margins of medical research as an overlooked, mysterious ...

Lewy bodies are, in fact, microscopic clumps of a protein called alpha-synuclein which may, under certain and as yet not understood circumstances, accumulate within nerve cells in the brain.

Lewy body dementia is a hard-to-diagnose type of dementia that impacts nearly 1.4 million Americans. But what is it? And why is it so easily misdiagnosed?

Diagnosing Lewy body dementia can be difficult because each person will have an individual set of symptoms - in some cases of dementia with Lewy bodies, no motor symptoms may develop at all - and ...

Lewy Body Dementia is an umbrella term that refers to both Parkinson’s disease dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies — the abnormal protein deposits in the brain that can lead to problems ...

Lewy body dementia is common, but simultaneously almost unheard of. Read this to learn about the cause, symptoms and challenges faced by patients and their families — and by actor Robin Williams ...