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Lewy body disease is type of disease that leads to a decline in thinking, reasoning or independent function. Alzheimer is the disease that one has before one gets lewy body disease.
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What is the disease that combines symptoms of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's?
Parkinson's Disease with Dementia and Lewy Body Disease both combine Alzheimer's and Parkinson's symptoms.
What is the disease that combines symptoms of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases?
Parkinson's Disease with Dementia and Lewy Body Disease both combine Alzheimer's and Parkinson's symptoms.
What is Lewy Disease?
Lewy Disease is a type of dementia (similar to Alzheimer's) and it has characterics of Parkinson's disease. It causes a type of mental decline.
What is the life expectancy with lewy body disease?
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What is the definition of Lewy Body Disease?
For more information about the Lewy Body Disease a doctor can be consulted or the internet could be used. But the safe bet is to ask your local doctor.
Most common form of dementia?
The most common type of dementia is Alzheimer's type dementia, there are other types such as Lewy Body and Vascular
Are lexapro and seroquel and trazodone together safe for treating lewy body dementia symptoms?
Yes, absolutley! My father has lewy body dementia and parkinson's disease and it has helped him tremendously!
What is luisbody dementia?
Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) is a progressive brain disease that is often mistaken for Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease, as they are very similar. The earliest symptoms of LBD differ from that of the latter, but will eventually end the same way. Symptoms include: dementia, hallucinations, fainting, and sleep behavior disorder.
What are the main irreversible causes of dementia?
The three main irreversible causes are Alzheimer's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, and multi-infarct dementia (also called vascular dementia).
Does Margaret thatcher have Alzheimer?
It is very likely that Margaret Thatcher has Alzheimer's. Most people are confused by the term dementia. Dementia is a set of symptoms and is not a disease. To have dementia symptoms, one must have an overlying disease that causes the dementia symptoms. Alzheimer's disease causes 70-80% of all cases of dementia symptoms. Other diseases such as Huntington's disease, Picks disease, Lewy Body disease, Front Temporal also causes dementia symptoms. Parkinson's disease in late stages also may cause dementia symptoms. If one were to say that a person exhibiting dementia symptoms had Alzheimer's disease, one would be right 4 out of times based on statistics alone.
When was Lewy body dementia first described?
The condition was first described by Frederick Lewy in 1941 when he described Lewy bodies, which are abnormal inclusions in the cytoplasm (components of a cell outside the nucleus) of cells found in patients who had Parkinson's disease
When did Otis Chandler die?
Otis Chandler died on February 27, 2006, in Ojai, California, USA of Lewy body disease.
