The study also adds to growing research that links oxidative stress—when harmful molecules like nitric oxide build up in the ...

Lewy body dementia (LBD). Unlike Alzheimer’s disease and even frontotemporal dementia, this brain disorder has tended to hide in the shadows. But work is underway to change that, says Dr ...

While Alzheimer's disease is the most common ... abnormal protein that accumulates in the brain known as alpha-synuclein, explains Dr. Bock. "Lewy body dementia can be caused by a condition ...

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 ... 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 ...

A LANDMARK genome-wide association study of 1,483 Lewy body disease (LBD) cases has identified APOE ε4 as the strongest ...

Lewy body dementia is caused by Lewy body disease, where there is an abnormal build-up of proteins which form structures inside brain cells called ‘Lewy bodies’. LBD can cause a wide range of symptoms ...

Williams had been diagnosed with early stages of Parkinson's disease before he died by suicide August 2014. But an autopsy revealed he also suffered from Lewy body dementia (LBD), a brain disorder ...

Researchers in Japan scored a world first by imaging how a substance responsible for Parkinson’s disease and Lewy ... and two suffering from Lewy body dementia. Images of the subjects ...

The Hall of Famer died in his sleep in the early hours on Monday due to complications of Lewy Body Dementia and ... time and disrupt normal brain function, the disease is particularly challenging ...

While Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia, there are also other common types such as vascular dementia, Lewy body dementia and Frontotemporal dementia. There are also rarer types ...