Alzheimer’s disease is the most commonly diagnosed form of dementia, but it’s far from the only one. In fact, most people who ...

Jack Russell of the band Great White has died at age 63, his family announced Thursday on Instagram. “Jack is loved and remembered for his sense of humor, exceptional zest for life, and unshakeable ...

Lewy body dementia is often misdiagnosed as Alzheimer disease, despite high specificity of clinical diagnosis.

After Robin Williams died by suicide in August 2014, his widow, Susan Schneider Williams, would soon learn about a disease she had never heard of, but one that had haunted both of their lives.That ...

Lewy body dementia (LBD) is a type of progressive disease that has affected more than a million Americans, according to the Lewy Body Dementia Association. Over time, it destroys brain cells and can ...

Lewy body dementia (LBD) is one of the most common types of dementia, after Alzheimer’s disease. It usually affects people aged 50 or older. Lewy bodies are clumps of protein that can form in the ...

Lewy body disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer's disease. A research group from Lund University has now shown that the disease can be detected before symptoms ...

In Parkinson’s disease, abnormal deposits called Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites pop up in neurons and processes, respectively. In 1998, Maria Grazia Spillantini at the University of Cambridge ...

Lewy bodies are a hallmark of Parkinson’s disease (PD) and other related neurological conditions. The presence of Lewy bodies in the brain is considered a “pathologic certainty” of Parkinson’s disease ...

Dementia with Lewy bodies is now widely recognized as the second most common type of degenerative dementia after Alzheimer's disease. It is diagnosed when someone has the characteristic symptoms ...

"It's a mild case of what people have as Alzheimer's," Ted Turner revealed to CBS Sunday Morning Ted Turner has revealed his Lewy Body dementia diagnosis. The 79-year-old media mogul, who founded CNN ...