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Renal Failure in Dementia with Lewy Bodies Presenting as Catatonia

open access: yesCase Reports in Neurology, 2013
Catatonia, originally described by Karl Kahlbaum in 1874, may be regarded as a set of clinical features found in a subtype of schizophrenia, but the syndrome may also stem from organic causes including vascular parkinsonism, brain masses, globus pallidus
Robert Fekete
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Music Therapy Techniques for Memory Stabilization in Diverse Dementias [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Music contains certain unmistakable healing properties pertaining specifically to the matured body and soul affected by various types of dementia. Music therapy aids in memory retention or the retarding of the loss of mental function as a result of ...
Shotts, Amanda
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Dementia in Parkinson's Disease Correlates with α-Synuclein Pathology but Not with Cortical Astrogliosis

open access: yesParkinson's Disease, 2012
Dementia is a common feature in Parkinson’s disease (PD) and is considered to be the result of limbic and cortical Lewy bodies and/or Alzheimer changes.
Simone A. van den Berge   +3 more
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Whole-brain patterns of 1H-magnetic resonance spectroscopy imaging in Alzheimer's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Acknowledgements We thank Craig Lambert for his help in processing the MRS data. The study was funded by the Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust (grant ref: 05/JTA) and was supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Newcastle Biomedical ...
Blamire, A. M.   +5 more
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Listening session with the US Food and Drug Administration, Lewy Body Dementia Association, and an expert panel

open access: yesAlzheimer’s & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions, 2023
The regulatory path for drug approval is increasingly well defined. Drugs for the treatment of Alzheimer disease (AD) need to show statistically significant benefit over placebo with respect to cognitive and functional measures, with the Clinical ...
Marwan N. Sabbagh   +9 more
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Kinematic analysis of handwriting movements in patients with Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment, depression and healthy subjects [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
A variety of studies have demonstrated that motor disorders, parkinsonism and extrapyramidal motor symptoms (EPMS) are common in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD).
Burger, K.   +5 more
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Onset Patterns and Initial Symptoms of Dementia with Lewy Bodies: Possible Pathophysiological Diversities Deduced from a SPECT Study

open access: yesDementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra, 2011
Background/Aims: The aim of this study was to investigate onset patterns and initial symptoms in patients with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and their association with SPECT findings. Methods: We studied 29 probable and 12 possible DLB patients.
T. Fukui, K. Hori, H. Yoshimasu
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Synaptic phosphorylated a-synuclein in dementia with Lewy bodies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Dementia with Lewy bodies is characterized by the accumulation of Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites in the CNS, both of which are composed mainly of aggregated a-synuclein phosphorylated at Ser129.
Andilla, Jordi   +22 more
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Cognitive fluctuations in connection to disgraphia a comparison of Alzheimer's disease with dementia Lewy bodies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Background: The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between cognitive impairment and the performance of handwritten scripts presented as “letter-writing” to a close relative by patients with dementia Lewy bodies (DLB), as ...
Donato, Giuseppe   +3 more
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I-Metaiodobenzylguanidine Myocardial Scintigraphy in Lewy Body-Related Disorders: A Literature Review [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Movement Disorders, 2015
Lewy body-related disorders are characterized by the presence of Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites, which have abnormal aggregations of α-synuclein in the nigral and extranigral areas, including in the heart.
Eun Joo Chung, Sang Jin Kim
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