In 2010, Judy Kauser, then 68, started having pains in her leg. It progressed so much that her family physician suggested the source was a back problem, or sciatica. When steroid medications didn't ...

Robin Williams' post-death diagnosis of Lewy body dementia unknowingly put him in the company of more than one million Americans dealing with brain changes caused by the disease. The star died by ...

In an emotional social media video, Brittany Aldean opened up for the first time on the personal family story that inspired ...

Lewy body disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer's disease. A research group has now shown that the disease can be detected before symptoms appear, using a spinal ...

Alzheimer’s disease and dementia are two diseases that many Americans are all too familiar with, but there is another dementia that plagued the late comedian Robin Williams. It might be “the most ...

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 ...

Our clinical operations teams drove impressive enrollment numbers this year based on strong interest from patients and investigators,” stated Lisa Ricciardi, Cognition’s president and CEO. “During the ...

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 ...

Q: I have heard that Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia are related. What exactly is Lewy body dementia? A: Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) is a brain disease that's cause is unknown. Protein ...

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 ...

Lewy body dementia is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder brought on by an excess of the protein alpha-synuclein in the brain. These deposits, known as Lewy bodies, can inhibit the production of ...