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Dementia with Lewy bodies: Challenges in the diagnosis and management

open access: yesAustralian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 2019
Objective: Dementia with Lewy bodies is the second most common form of neurodegenerative dementia in older age yet is often under-recognised and misdiagnosed.
Kai Sin Chin   +2 more
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Dementia with Lewy Bodies

Science of Aging Knowledge Environment, 2001
In this case study, we describe the symptoms, neuropsychological testing, and brain pathology of a man with dementia with Lewy bodies. Dementia with Lewy bodies might be the second most common form of degenerative dementia in the elderly. Progressive cognitive decline, well-formed visual hallucinations, and parkinsonism are core features of this ...
H, Posner, S, Chin, K, Marder
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Dementia with Lewy bodies

The Lancet Neurology, 2004
Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is the second commonest cause of neurodegenerative dementia in older people. It is part of the range of clinical presentations that share a neuritic pathology based on abnormal aggregation of the synaptic protein alpha-synuclein.
Ian, McKeith   +18 more
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Synaptic phosphorylated α-synuclein in dementia with Lewy bodies [PDF]

open access: yesBrain, 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 α-synuclein phosphorylated at Ser129.
Marti Colom-Cadena   +2 more
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Characteristics of Visual Hallucinations in Parkinson Disease Dementia and Dementia With Lewy Bodies

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2006
OBJECTIVE Parkinson disease dementia (PDD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) have overlapping clinical and pathologic features. Recurrent visual hallucinations (RVH) are common in both disorders.
Urs P Mosimann   +2 more
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Dementia with Lewy bodies

Current Opinion in Neurology, 1996
Dementia with Lewy bodies is a generic term which was proposed at the first International Workshop on Lewy Body Dementia (Newcastle upon Tyne, 1995). It is an all encompassing term that includes various types of disorder such as diffuse Lewy body disease, senile dementia of Lewy body type, and Lewy body variant of Alzheimer's disease.
K, Kosaka, E, Iseki
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Dementia with Lewy Bodies

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1998
In the last decade, a new degenerative dementia, probably the second most common after Alzheimer's disease (AD), has been increasingly recognized under the consensus name of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). This article reviews current clinical, genetic, and pathological DLB data and indicates directions for future research.
E, Gómez-Tortosa   +3 more
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Role of Cholinesterase Inhibitors in Parkinson’s Disease and dementia with Lewy Bodies

open access: yesJournal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology, 2004
This article reviews the cholinergic changes in Parkinson's disease and dementia (PDD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), their potential clinical implications, and the available evidence for cholinesterase inhibitors in the treatment of PDD and DLB ...
Dag Aarsland   +2 more
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Tau in dementia with Lewy bodies

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 2023
Objective: Neurofibrillary tangles are present in a proportion of people with dementia with Lewy bodies and may be associated with worse cognition. Recent advances in biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease include second-generation tau positron emission tomography as well as the detection of phosphorylated tau at ...
Kai Sin Chin   +6 more
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Dementia with Lewy Bodies

Seminars in Neurology, 2013
Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is a synucleinopathy that is clinically distinct from Alzheimer's disease, associated with cognitive decline, fluctuations in alertness and cognition, visual hallucinations, and parkinsonism. Other clinical symptoms that can occur with DLB include dysautonomia and sleep disorders such as rapid-eye-movement sleep behavior
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