Article
Dementia with Lewy bodies.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society - 1 Nov 1998
Gómez-Tortosa E, Ingraham A O, Irizarry M C, Hyman B T
Abstract excerpt
In the last decade, a new degenerative dementia, probably the second most common after Alzheimer's disease (AD), has been increasingly recognized under the consensus name of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). This article reviews current clinical, genetic, and pathological DLB data and indicates di...
Topics
- Aged
- Dementia
- Diagnosis, Differential
- Disease Progression
- Humans
- Lewy Bodies
- Male
- Mutation
- Nerve Tissue Proteins
- Synucleins
- alpha-Synuclein
