Proteins form the building blocks of life, but when they form unusual clumps inside the brain, they raise an alarm that ...

While Alzheimer’s disease is the most common type of dementia, there’s another variation that is also relatively prevalent. Lewy body dementia (LBD) affects more than 1 million people in the US. It is ...

Researchers from Denmark have uncovered strong evidence that depression often appears years before Parkinson’s disease and ...

Lewy body dementia (LBD) is a type of dementia caused by abnormal protein deposits in the brain, called Lewy bodies. The deposits cause chemical changes in the brain, leading to problems with thinking ...

People with Parkinson's disease and Lewy body dementia have increased rates of incident depression from seven to eight years ...

This doesn’t mean that everyone with depression will wind up with a brain disease like Parkinson’s or dementia, researchers ...

In a breakthrough development, scientists developed a new way to identify Lewy body disease, a serious form of dementia, ...

New research suggests that two proteins, amyloid- and phosphorylated tau, the key proteins of Alzheimer's disease, are detected in blood once symptoms have started in Lewy's body diseases, such as ...

It’s the second most common type of dementia, after Alzheimer’s, yet many remain unfamiliar with its challenges. “The most common disease that people have never heard of.” That’s how 73-year-old Don ...

There is currently no cure for dementia with Lewy bodies, which is the 2nd most common type of dementia. Researchers from the Karolinska Institutet have found that Alzheimer’s disease medications ...

Lewy bodies are a hallmark of Parkinson's disease (PD) and other related neurological conditions. Understanding why and how they develop is critical to developing better treatments. A study from The ...

A patient in his 70s with presumed Parkinson's disease was evaluated by a neuropsychologist. This clinician diagnosed probable dementia with Lewy bodies, rather than true Parkinson's disease. What is ...