Who is at risk for Lewy body dementia? Age is considered the biggest risk factor for the disease. Most cases have no known trigger, although a handful of gene mutations can predispose someone to LBD.

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 Parkinson’s disease dementia (PDD) ...

dementia with Lewy body, and frontotemporal dementia. The key points of clinical differences of these dementia syndromes are summarized in this article. Prevalence of dementia is increasing due to ...

“An MRI can help in excluding other diseases,” Sachdev says. Because Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease can cause ...

A new study by the University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Finland, found that a significant proportion of ...

Our highly trained staff is skilled in assessing persons referred for a variety of conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, dementia with Lewy body, frontotemporal lobe dementia, ...

No history of medication could be elicited. Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is a clinically defined syndrome and is claimed to be the second most common type of degenerative dementia among older ...