Lewy Body Dementia

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Lewy Body Dementia

General Information

NEWS:

Amyloid plaque suggests fast onset of Lewy body dementia

ARTICLES:

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

Anosmia is very common in the Lewy body variant of Alzheimer's disease. (J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2005)

Cognitive differences in dementia patients with autopsy-verified AD, Lewy body pathology, or both. (Neurology. 2005)

Dementia with Lewy Bodies: Current Concepts (Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders 2005)

Diagnosis and management of dementia with Lewy bodies (NEUROLOGY 2005)

Diagnosis and management of dementia with Lewy bodies. Third report of the DLB consortium. (Neurology. 2005)

Involvement of medullary regions controlling sympathetic output in Lewy body disease. (Brain. 2005)

Lower urinary tract function in dementia of Lewy body type. (J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2005)

Tau Protein, Abeta42 and S-100B Protein in Cerebrospinal Fluid of Patients with Dementia with Lewy Bodies. (Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord. 2005)

The Alzheimer Variant of Lewy Body Disease: A Pathologically Confirmed Case-Control Study. (Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord. 2005)

The role of alpha-synuclein in neurodegenerative diseases. (Pharmacol Ther. 2005)

Tuft-shaped astrocytes in Lewy body disease. (Acta Neuropathol (Berl). 2005)

INTERNET SITES:

NIH - ADEAR Dementia with Lewy Bodies: Not Exactly Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s Disease

NIH - NINDS Dementia With Lewy Bodies Information Page

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