Definitions for lewy body dementia
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1. Lewy Body Dementia

   Lewy body dementias are two similar and common subtypes of dementia—dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD). Both are characterized by changes in thinking, movement, behavior, and mood. The two conditions have similar features and may have similar causes, and are believed to belong on a spectrum of Lewy body disease that includes Parkinson's disease. As of 2014, they were more often misdiagnosed than any other common dementia.The exact cause is unknown, but involves widespread deposits of abnormal clumps of protein that form in neurons of the diseased brain. Known as Lewy bodies (discovered in 1912 by Frederic Lewy) and Lewy neurites, these clumps affect both the central nervous system and the autonomic nervous system. The fifth revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) gives Lewy body disease as the causative subtype of dementia with Lewy bodies, and Parkinson's disease as the causative subtype of Parkinson's disease dementia. Dementia with Lewy bodies is marked by the presence of Lewy bodies primarily in the cortical regions, and Parkinson's disease dementia with Lewy bodies primarily in the subcortical basal ganglia.

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1. Lewy Body Dementia

   Lewy Body Dementia is a disease associated with abnormal deposits of a protein called alpha-synuclein in the brain. These deposits, called Lewy bodies, affect chemicals in the brain whose changes, in turn, can lead to problems with thinking, movement, behavior, and mood.

   
   

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of lewy body dementia in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

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   The numerical value of lewy body dementia in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of lewy body dementia in a Sentence

1. Piper Jaffray analyst Charles Duncan:

   Lewy body dementia is one of the most interesting, under-recognized disorders, i suspect you'll see Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc go there too.

2. Marina Zenovich:

   People noticed something was off, he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s, he was seeing doctors, he was on medication. And I think a lot of time with these diseases, you go on medication and they have side effects. He’s dealing with that and going to therapy. But when he died, they discovered in the autopsy that he had… Lewy body dementia. It was covering his brain. His whole brain had it. I don’t think anyone understood the depth of what he was going through until it was too late… His brain was misfiring… which is really sad.

3. Piper Jaffray analyst Charles Duncan:

   Lewy body dementia is one of the most interesting, under-recognized disorders, i suspect you'll see Acadia go there too.

4. Susan Williams:

   Lewy body dementia killed Robin.

5. Susan Williams:

   Robin did not die from depression, robin had a deadly disease and it’s called Lewy body dementia. He had one of the worst cases they’d ever seen.

References

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   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewy_Body_Dementia