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Dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson's disease [PDF]

, 2004
Lewy bodies (LB) in the central nervous system are associated with several different clinical syndromes including Parkinson's disease (PD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). Long term follow up of PD patients finds up to 78% eventually develop dementia,
McKeith, Ian G., Mosimann, Urs P.
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Identification of the sites of tau hyperphosphorylation and activation of tau kinases in synucleinopathies and Alzheimer's diseases.

PLoS ONE, 2013
ObjectiveMost neurodegenerative diseases contain hyperphosphorylated Tau [p-Tau]. We examined for the first time epitopes at which Tau is hyperphosphorylated in Parkinson's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies and Alzheimer's disease, and also select Tau ...
Valeriy Duka, Jae-Hoon Lee, Joel Credle, Jonathan Wills, Adam Oaks, Ciaran Smolinsky, Ketul Shah, Deborah C Mash, Eliezer Masliah, Anita Sidhu   +9 more
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Renal Failure in Dementia with Lewy Bodies Presenting as Catatonia

Case 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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Introduction of an assessment toolkit associated with increased rate of DLB diagnosis

Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy, 2021
Background Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and dementia in Parkinson’s disease (PDD) are recognised to be under-recognised in clinical practice in the UK, with only one third to a half of expected cases diagnosed.
A. Surendranathan, J. Kane, A. Bentley, S. Barker, R. McNally, C. Bamford, J.-P. Taylor, A. Thomas, I. McKeith, D. Burn, J. T. O’Brien   +10 more
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Lewy Body Dementia

Annals of Medicine, 1999
Although Lewy body dementia (LBD) has received a considerable amount of interest in the last decade, there still exists a certain level of confusion concerning the clinical and neuropathological features associated with this disorder. According to many researchers, LBD represents a distinct dementing illness with specific clinical features.
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Hemianopsia in Dementia With Lewy Bodies [PDF]

Archives of Neurology, 1998
To describe the pathologic changes that caused a left homonymous hemianopsia in a patient with dementia with Lewy bodies.Report of a case and postmortem studies.A 66-year-old woman experienced parkinsonism and left homonymous hemianopsia early in the course of a rapidly progressive dementia that culminated in death only 21 months after the onset of her
K, Bashir, R J, Elble, M, Ghobrial, R G, Struble   +3 more
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Differentiation of dementia with Lewy bodies from Alzheimer's disease using a dopaminergic presynaptic ligand [PDF]

, 2002
Background: Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is one of the main differential diagnoses of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Key pathological features of patients with DLB are not only the presence of cerebral cortical neuronal loss, with Lewy bodies in surviving ...
Livingston, G, Costa, DC, Shaw, K, Ince, P, Gacinovic, S, Walker, RWH, Stevens, T, Katona, CLE, McKeith, IG, Walker, Z   +9 more
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Posterior Cortical Atrophy in the Asia‐Pacific: A Report From the PCA Asian Workgroup

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Posterior Cortical Atrophy (PCA) is a distinct dementia syndrome primarily affecting spatial abilities and visual processing. It is associated with degeneration in the posterior part of the brain. PCA is subclassified into PCA‐pure and PCA‐plus syndromes based on consensus criteria.
Yuttachai Likitjaroen, Ya‐Ting Chang, Levinia Lim, Pai‐Yi Chiu, Jung‐Lung Hsu, SangYun Kim, Wataru Narita, Na Young Ryoo, Kyoko Suzuki, Nagaendran Kandiah, Sebastian Crutch, Ming‐Chyi Pai   +11 more
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Care home design for people with dementia: What do people with dementia and their family carers value? [PDF]

, 2011
Objectives: To report on the views of people with dementia who live in care homes and their family carers on aspects of design that are important to them, and discuss these in relation to developing physical care environments that respond to the wishes ...
Innes, Anthea, Dincarslan, Ozlem, Fiona Kelly, Ozlem Dincarslan, Kelly, Fiona, Anthea Innes, Dincarslan, O.   +6 more
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SPG4 and Dementia: Expanding the Clinical Spectrum

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) is a group of disorders characterized by progressive spasticity and lower limb weakness, with mutations in SPG4/SPAST being the most common cause. Detailed studies and clinical and molecular comparisons across different populations are missing.
Emanuele Panza, Arun Meyyazhagan, Eliseo Picchi, Gustavo Ribas, Ingrid Faber, Ryosuke Miyamoto, Preethi Basavaraju, Paolo Eusebi, Haripriya Kuchi Bhotla, Mario Stasi, Fabrizio Gaudiello, Francesco Patti, Filippo Maria Santorelli, Marcondes Cavalcante França Jr, José Luiz Pedroso, Orlando Graziani Povoas Barsottini, Hélio Afonso Ghizoni Teive, Peter Henry St George‐Hyslop, Toshitaka Kawarai, Antonio Orlacchio   +19 more
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