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The LBDA is working to provide relevant resources to assist LBD patients and their families. It is our aim to make LBD as common as a term as Alzheimer’s some day. Here you will find some resources to assist. If you have any suggestions for links, please email the webmaster.

Click here to read LBD-related articles and research abstracts.

LBD Links

DLB book cover Dementia with Lewy Bodies, edited by John O'Brien, et. al.
This book covers the gamut of LBD topics, including the condition from diagnosis to management, the known neurobiological changes involved. Click the link above to read reviews and to order the book from Amazon.com (opens in a new window).

www.ninds.nih.gov
This Web page covers basic facts about Lewy body dementia and provides links to relevant professional organizations.

Lewybody.org
British LBD web site

The Lewy Body Dementia Directory
Links to Information about LBD

Dementia with Lewy Bodies
From the Family Caregiver Alliance, National Center on Caregiving

Dementia with Lewy Bodies: The "Other" Dementia
From inforaging.org and the American Federation for Aging Research

Lewy Body Dementia. Lewy-Net.
This Web site compares the disease traits and clinical differences among Lewy body dementia, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.

Clinical Dementia Rating Scale
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.

Mind, Mood & Memory (pdf)
A 100 page booklet on LBD and Parkinson's Disease with Dementia (PDD). To request a copy of this and other National Parkinson's Foundation booklets.
E-mail: contact@parkinson.org