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 ...

Lewy body dementia, which is the condition actor Robin Williams was diagnosed with before his death, is linked with abnormal ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

However, close behind are vascular, frontotemporal, Lewy body, and Parkinson’s dementia. There are many more, but these are the most common. The brain changes that cause dementia start at least ...

Seaver was diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia, the same brain disorder Robin Williams had when he died by suicide in August 2014 at age 63. Caused by abnormal protein deposits that build up over ...