HubHip: Health: Conditions and Diseases: Neurological Disorders: Dementia: Lewy Body (8)

DescriptionDementia with Lewy bodies describes several common disorders causing dementia. The name for the disease comes from the presence inside nerve cells of Lewy bodies.

The disease has been given a variety of names - Diffuse Lewy body Disease - Cortical Lewy body Disease - Lewy Body Dementia - Senile Dementia Of Lewy Type - Lewy Body Variant of Alzheimer's Disease

The main features of the condition include - development of dementia with features similar with those of Alzheimer's- development of some features of Parkinson's disease - fluctuation in condition on a day-to-day basis - early development of hallucinations

DescriptionDementia with Lewy bodies describes several common disorders causing dementia. The name for the disease comes from the presence inside nerve cells of Lewy bodies.

The disease has been given a variety of names - Diffuse Lewy body Disease - Cortical Lewy body Disease - Lewy Body Dementia - Senile Dementia Of Lewy Type - Lewy Body Variant of Alzheimer's Disease

The main features of the condition include - development of dementia with features similar with those of Alzheimer's- development of some features of Parkinson's disease - fluctuation in condition on a day-to-day basis - early development of hallucinations

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