Lewy body dementia (LBD) is a progressive condition. The average life expectancy is around 5 to 8 years following a diagnosis, but it can be up to 20 years. There is no cure for LBD, but treatment ...

Months after actor and comedian Robin Williams took his own life in August 2014, autopsy results revealed he had a devastating disease: Lewy body dementia (LBD). Unlike Alzheimer’s disease and ...

Lewy body dementia contains both Parkinson’s disease dementia (PDD) and Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). DLB is the second most common cause of dementia in the general population and affects an ...

Lewy body dementia (LBD) is a progressive condition that typically involves a faster decline in cognitive (thinking) skills than Alzheimer’s disease. It may also have a less favorable outlook ...

A LANDMARK genome-wide association study of 1,483 Lewy body disease (LBD) cases has identified APOE ε4 as the strongest ...

Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is a common neurodegenerative disorder in which patients exhibit symptoms of dementia and parkinsonism along with fluctuations and hallucinations that can be ...

In a new study, dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) has been associated with the deposition of amyloid-β in the brain. According to Edison and colleagues, these results indicate that most patients ...

The presentation will focus on the RewinD-LB Phase 2b study of neflamapimod for treating dementia with Lewy bodies. Key speakers include CervoMed's CEO John Alam and Dr. Stephen Gomperts from ...

Patients with Lewy body dementia have been known to hallucinate ... By doing so, they developed another agent whose molecular structure binds strongly to alpha-synuclein. The finished agent ...