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Lewy body disease and dementia with Lewy bodies

Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B, 2014
In 1976 we reported our first autopsied case with diffuse Lewy body disease (DLBD), the term of which we proposed in 1984. We also proposed the term "Lewy body disease" (LBD) in 1980. Subsequently, we classified LBD into three types according to the distribution pattern of Lewy bodies: a brain stem type, a transitional type and a diffuse type.
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Visual Hallucinations in PD and Lewy Body Dementias: Old and New Hypotheses

Behavioural Neurology, 2013
Visual Hallucinations (VH) are a common non-motor symptom of Parkinson’s Disease (PD) and the Lewy body dementias (LBD) of Parkinson's disease with dementia (PDD) and Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB).
M. Onofrj, J. P. Taylor, D. Monaco, R. Franciotti, F. Anzellotti, L. Bonanni, V. Onofrj, A. Thomas   +7 more
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A rare case of early onset lewy body dementia with parkinsonism associated with chronic exposure to copper contaminated drinking water

Frontiers in Toxicology
There is a well-recognized relationship between a person’s body burden of essential trace elements such as copper and their neurological function in which both deficiencies and exposures to excessive concentrations are associated with adverse clinical ...
Marcia H. Ratner, Jonathan S. Rutchik
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Sudden Death: An Uncommon Occurrence in Dementia with Lewy Bodies

Journal of Parkinson’s Disease, 2016
We present a 75-year-old woman with dementia and parkinsonism who developed severe orthostatic hypotension and eventually died. Autopsy revealed extensive Lewy body formation in the midbrain, limbic system, intermediate spinal cord, and medulla oblongata.
Joery P. Molenaar, Joyce Wilbers, Marjolein B. Aerts, Quinten H. Leijten, Jan G. van Dijk, Rianne A. Esselink, Bastiaan R. Bloem   +6 more
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Pharmacotherapy of dementia

Journal of Geriatric Mental Health, 2016
This review aims to evaluate the existing evidence for pharmacotherapy for management of dementia. Data search strategies included electronic databases of relevant publications or cross-references.
Ajit Avasthi, Gourav Gupta, Sandeep Grover   +2 more
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Getting to the heart of Lewy body disease

The Journal of Clinical Investigation
Early identification of neurodegenerative diseases before extensive neuronal loss or disabling symptoms have occurred is imperative for effective use of disease-modifying therapies.
Anna E. Goodheart, Craig Blackstone
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LEWY BODY VARIANT OF ALZHEIMER DISEASE

Zdravniški Vestnik, 2003
Background. Clinicopathological studies indicate that Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative cause of dementia, the other frequent causes are AD combined with diffuse Lewy bodies and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) by itself.
Jera Jeruc, Aleš Kogoj, Marko Pišljar, Mara Popović   +3 more
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Phenoconversion from probable rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder to mild cognitive impairment to dementia in a population‐based sample

Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, 2017
Introduction Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is strongly associated with synucleinopathies. In 2012, we reported an increased risk of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Parkinson disease (PD) in cognitively normal Olmsted County ...
Youngsin Jung, Brendon P. Boot, Michelle M. Mielke, Tanis J. Ferman, Yonas E. Geda, Eric McDade, Teresa J.H. Christianson, David S. Knopman, Erik K. St Louis, Michael H. Silber, Ronald C. Petersen, Bradley F. Boeve   +11 more
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Time From Diagnosis of Lewy Body Dementia to Death: Retrospective Study Exploring Patients Within Humber Older People's Mental Health Services

BJPsych Open
Aims Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) is the second commonest dementia. It accounts for around 7% of dementia cases in secondary care. Studies have shown that LBD patients have an accelerated trajectory towards death when compared with other forms of dementia ...
Sunday Adeoye, Manorama Bhattarai
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Normal pressure hydrocephalus co-existing with a second dementia disorder

Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, 2008
Joseph Alisky1,21Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, 1000 Oak Avenue, Marshfield, Wisconsin, USA; 2Marshfield Clinic Thorp Center, 704 South Clark, Thorp, Wisconsin, USAAbstract: An 87-year-old woman had both Lewy body dementia and normal pressure ...
Joseph Alisky
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