Lewy Body Dementia
Dysphagia in Lewy body dementia - a clinical observational study of swallowing function by videofluoroscopic examination
... PD is mainly pharyngeal and our study found that this is also the case for DLB and PDD [17]. This differs from the swallowing dysfunction in healthy elderly and AD since these often show an oral dysfunction [18,19]. A ...
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Ectopic localization of FOXO3a protein in Lewy bodies in Lewy body dementia and Parkinson's disease
... and Lewy neurites constitute the cardinal neuropathological features of both Parkinson's disease (PD) and Lewy body dementia ...the Lewy body, the mechanisms by which neurons ...
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MRI of the Swallow Tail Sign: A Useful Marker in the Diagnosis of Lewy Body Dementia?
... for Lewy body ...in Lewy body dementia and hypothesized that the sign would be likewise applicable in Lewy body ...
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Lewy body dementia: the impact on patients and caregivers
... Lewy body dementia (LBD) is the second most common neurodegenerative dementia in older adults, yet there remains a delay in diagnosis that limits healthcare providers ’ ability to maximize ...
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Brain glucose metabolism in Lewy body dementia: implications for diagnostic criteria
... As for the differential diagnosis, the misdiagnosis of DLB as ADD is usually due to the overlap of both cogni- tive and behavioral symptoms [4]. Previous studies aimed at assessing [18F]FDG-PET as a biomarker for the ...
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Clinical prevalence of Lewy body dementia
... of dementia (for DLB prevalence), and those with a diagnosis of PD (for PDD prevalence), over a fixed 18-month period within a 2-year window from January 2013 to December ...study, dementia subtype, as ...
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Lewy Body Dementia (Update)
... Lewy bodies are made of a protein called alpha-synuclein. In the healthy brain, alpha-synuclein plays a number of important roles in neurons (nerve cells) in the brain, especially at synapses, where brain cells ...
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APOE ε4, white matter hyperintensities, and cognition in Alzheimer and Lewy body dementia
... While our data supported our hypothesis, it failed to show an allele dosage effect. This could be a result of the small size of the homozygous group; however, the similar pattern of results in both SDS and ADNI-I suggests ...
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APOE ɛ4, white matter hyperintensities, and cognition in Alzheimer and Lewy body dementia
... (2) Dementia Rating Scale (DRS), (3) California verbal Learning Test (CVLT), total acquisition score through five trials, CVLT long delay-free recall, and CVLT long delay-cued recall (4) Wechsler Memory Scale ...
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Everyday conversation in dementia: a review of the literature to inform research and practice
... wider dementia literature to draw together the implications for practice and fur- ther ...vascular dementia and Lewy body dementia, or where due to the nature of the difficulties ...
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A selenium species in cerebrospinal fluid predicts conversion to Alzheimer’s dementia in persons with mild cognitive impairment
... s dementia during a median follow-up of 42 months; four subjects developed frontotemporal dementia and two patients Lewy body ...s dementia risk, with an adjusted hazard ratio of ...s ...
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Everyday conversation in dementia: a review of the literature to inform research and practice
... wider dementia literature to draw together the implications for practice and fur- ther ...vascular dementia and Lewy body dementia, or where due to the nature of the difficulties ...
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Clinical Reasoning: A 55-year-old man with rapidly progressive dementia and parkinsonism
... frontotemporal dementia, Lewy body dementia, or progressive supra- nuclear palsy presenting as a rapidly progressive dementia may have secondary contributing factors to this decline, ...
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A soluble tau fragment generated by caspase-2 is associated with dementia in Lewy body disease
... Lewy body diseases are neurodegenerative disorders characterized by Lewy bodies in the ...brain. Lewy body dementia (LBD) refers to two forms of Lewy body disease: ...
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Luminescent conjugated oligothiophenes distinguish between α-synuclein assemblies of Parkinson’s disease and multiple system atrophy
... of Lewy body dementia (LBD) and multiple system atrophy (MSA) ...of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Parkinson’s disease dementia (PDD) [1, ...sive dementia with ...
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Dementias Caused by Persistent Pathogens and the Protective Role of HLA Against them
... to dementia, pathogens are increasingly recognized as contributing to the development of ...to dementia. Finally, we briefly review common forms of dementia including Alzheimer’s disease, vascular ...
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HarrisCapstonePA2017.pdf
... “lewy body disease or lewy body dementia”, “systematic and lewy body disease”, and “differential diagnosis and lewy body ...AND Lewy body ...
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Advocacy, education, and the role of not-for-profit organizations in Lewy body dementias
... specialist dementia or movement disorders clinic are more likely to receive LBD educational information and be referred to organizations like the LBDA and the ...diagnosing dementia make it most likely that ...
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Demography, diagnostics, and medication in dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson's disease with dementia: data from the Swedish Dementia Quality Registry (SveDem)
... such as the clock test and/or A Quick Test of Cognitive Speed, blood and cerebrospinal fluid sampling, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging, electroen- cephalography, nuclear imaging (including either ...
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Validation of Addenbrooke’s cognitive examination III for detecting mild cognitive impairment and dementia in Japan
... with dementia had a demen- tia severity of ...the dementia group were diag- nosed with Alzheimer’s disease dementia (ADD; n = 131), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB; n = 21), be- havioral ...
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