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| May 12, 2008 | Diagnosing a mystery: Lewy body disease is often mistaken for other types of dementia by Markian Hawryluk, The Bulletin In 2003, Milton Carmen, a Yale-educated physicist and successful real estate developer, noticed a disturbing trend. At age 79, he was struggling to find the words he wanted to use. A neurologist prescribed him a medication used to treat Alzheimer’s disease. The next year, while on a trip away from home, his left hand started shaking. His doctors then diagnosed him with Parkinson’s disease and put him on another medication. It was four neurologists later that Carmen and his wife, Marjorie, who have since moved to Bend, first heard the term Lewy body disease. |
| May 29, 2007 | Personality Changes May Help Detect Form Of Dementia Science Daily A simple personality test could help doctors detect dementia with Lewy bodies, a form of dementia often confused with Alzheimer's disease, sooner, according to a study published in the May 29, 2007, issue of Neurology®, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology. |
| May 6, 2007 | Dementia causes one to lose her edge by Beth Macy, The Roanoake Times For someone whose livelihood depended on her mastery of language, it troubled Lynn Forbish when she'd struggle to extract an everyday word from memory -- "cafeteria," say -- only to have "mess hall" pop out instead. Later, as the fuzzy thinking worsened, it was her bra that gave her fits: Did the damn thing hook in the front or the back? Just whose idea was it for women to wear these things anyway? A year ago when she was diagnosed with Lewy body dementia… |
| December 24, 2006 | Scrooge was a Victim of Brain Disease by John Harlow, The Sunday Times IT WAS the night before Christmas and Ebenezer Scrooge was facing a succession of supernatural terrors; or, as the latest medical thinking would have it, he was succumbing to a brain disease so obscure that doctors would not give it a name for another 150 years. |
| February 26, 2006 | Probing a Mind for a Cure by Stacey Burling, Philadelphia Inquirer Staff Writer Bob Moore's gift to science is helping shed light on the mysteries of Dementia. |
| Updated 2006 | LBD Familial Case Reviews and Molecular Genetics Pubmed: Compiled from multiple sources. |
| November 1, 2005 | Lewy Body Disease Sapped New Athens Woman's Vitality by Roger Schlueter, Belleville (IL) News-Democrat When 83-year-old Verda Edwards began experiencing hallucinations late last year, her doctor figured it was another cut-and-dried case of Alzheimer's disease. He prescribed an anti-psychotic drug to ease the hallucinations and another drug to boost her memory. But within three months, Edwards became a feeble, helpless shell of her former vibrant self... |
| September 7, 2005 | Simple word test could identify early Alzheimer's by Olivia Johnson, BBC News, Dublin British scientists believe that a simple word test could be used to identify people who might be suffering from the very early stages of Alzheimer's disease. |
| August 2005 | Lewy Body Dementia by Janet Keiser, Lewy Body Dementia Association Written by request for a home care service in Toronto, CA for inclusion in their newsletter. |
| June 16, 2005 | Parkinson's jab tests 'promising' from BBC News. Scientists trying to find a way to beat Parkinson's disease are reporting promising tests of a vaccine in mice. |
| June 2, 2005 | A protein found naturally in the brain may protect against Parkinson's disease from News-Medical.net A protein found naturally in the brain may protect against Parkinson's disease (PD), a new study shows. The findings also may lead to an improved understanding of a disorder called early-onset torsion dystonia. |
| April 2005 | Comprehensive Approach to Treatment Can Significantly Improve the Quality of Life of Patients with the Lewy Body Dementias. by Bradley F. Boeve, M.D. A new approach in treating LBD symptoms. |
| October 2004 | Diagnostic Review & Medicine Management by Bradley F. Boeve, M.D. Physician’s guide to diagnosing and treating DLB/LBD. |
| January 2003 | Dementia with Lewy bodies - A ‘New’ Type of Dementia With Visual Symptoms (PDF) by Richard A. Armstrong BSc, D.Phil. Describes the general symptoms of dementia with Lewy bodies, the visual symptoms which have been reported in the disorder, and to discuss those visual features which may help in the differential diagnosis of dementia with Lewy bodies and Alzheimer’s disease. |
| January 2001 | Clinical Dementia Rating Scale (pdf) Test widely used by doctors, covering aspects of LBD and Alzheimer's. Lewy Body Dementia NINDS Information Page. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. |
| Parkinson's-Plus Disorders by Mayo Clinic Overview of LBD and other Parkinsonian Diseases. |
