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View Post: Dementia with Lewy Bodies: and Parkinson's Disease Dementia
18 Nov 2009 by admin  
Filling a noticeable gap in the market for a new text solely focused on Dementia with Lewy Bodies, this book discusses cutting-edge topics covering the condition from diagnosis to management, as well as what is known about the ...
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View Post: Observation: Lewy and Holiday Stress ~ Back Door Logic
14 hours ago by Sue  
Documenting my journey with my mom down dementia highway, using alternative treatments to the traditional methods, our goal is to have more good days than bad. Lewy Bodies Dementia is one crazy disease that often leaves me at the back ...
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View Post: Happy Thanksgiving « Lewy Body Dementia
26 Nov 2009 by Holly  
Hopefully Dad can stay better for a while because things have certainly been rather difficult lately. In any case, we wish everyone a happy and healthy Thanksgiving. Cheers! Posted in Lewy Body Dementia ...
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View Post: Alzheimer's Reading Room: What is Lewy Body Dementia ? (LBD)
27 Sep 2009
Lewy body dementia shares characteristics with both Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. Like Alzheimer's, it causes confusion. Like Parkinson's, it can result in rigid muscles, slowed movement and tremors. ...
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View Post: Mild cognitive impairment associated with limbic and neocortical ...
4 Nov 2009 by Molano, J., Boeve, B., Ferman, T., Smith,...  
The diagnosis of clinically probable dementia with Lewy bodies was based on the 2005 McKeith criteria. Hippocampal volumes, rate of hippocampal atrophy, and proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy were assessed on available magnetic ...
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View Post: Caregiver's dilemma - Taking the car keys
12 Nov 2009 by Amy and Gerald Throop  
Written for caregivers, Living with Lewy's is a survival guide for all caregivers, but esepcially for caregivers of people with dementia with Lewy bodies, Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. LBDA receives a $2 contribution from the ...
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View Post: MaRS Blog - Innovation and Commercialization in Canada » Blog ...
26 Nov 2009 by MaRS Discovery District  
... cerebral amyloid angiopathy (7%); Lewy bodies (3%). In other words - no single dominant pathology was found. This indicates that multiple causal factors for dementia exist and this will require a multi-modal treatment plan. ...
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View Post: Dementia With Lewy Bodies
27 Oct 2005
Dementia is a progressive (gradually worsening) decline of mental abilities that disturbs "cognitive" functions such as memory, thought processes, and speech as well as behavior, and movements. Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is the ...
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View Post: Relative preservation of MMSE scores in autopsy-proven dementia ...
5 Oct 2009 by Nelson, P. T., Kryscio, R. J., Jicha, G....  
Background: Recent studies raised questions about the severity of cognitive impairment associated with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). However, there have been few analyses of large, multicenter data registries for clinical–pathologic ...
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View Post: Less activities and news due to my mother slowly dying in hospital
26 Nov 2009 by cedric_walter@hotmail.com (Administrator)  
Later symptoms and signs are dementia (typically including loss of inhibition and ability to organize information), slurring of speech, difficulty swallowing, and difficulty moving the eyes, particularly in the vertical direction. .... " Lewy bodies in progressive supranuclear palsy represent an independent disease process". Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology 65 (4): 387–95. doi:10.1097/01.jnen.0000218449.17073.43. PMID 16691119. ...
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