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What Is Lewy Body Dementia
- 1. Lewy Body Dementia An Emerging Disease Part 1: What is it? Presented by The Lewy Body Dementia Association, Inc . Increasing Knowledge Sharing Experience Building Hope
- 3. LBD isn’t Alzheimer’s Disease! But it may accompany Alzheimer’s not specifically yes Lethal selectively indiscriminately Kills brain cells fluctuating symptoms general decline Result extracts acetylcholine from nerve cells. weakens, then strangles Action Lewy bodies Placques and Tangles Brain Autopsy LBD AD
- 4. Lewy body in neuron of brain. Red areas: where Lewy bodies are found in brain. Lewy bodies are: Very tiny abnormal protein structures. The kind of symptoms (and the disease) depends on where the bodies reside in the brain
- 5. Lewy body dementia (LBD) (often called Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) Parkinson’s disease (PD) Parkinson’s disease with dementia (PDD) LBD is a member of the Lewy Body Disease Family
- 6. Both Both Both PDD Movement problems Motor Substantia nigra PD Dementia Cognition (memory, thinking) Cerebral cortex LBD Symptoms Function controlled Location in brain Disease name
- 9. LBD Diagnosis Dementia: Must be present for any LBD/PDD diagnosis Core Features Fluctuating cognition Recurrent visual hallucinations Parkinsonism Suggestive Features REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) Abnormal result on brain scans (PET, SPECT) Diagnosis Probable: Dementia and 2 core, or 1 core and 1 or more suggestive symptoms Possible: Dementia and only 1 core feature, or 1 or more suggestive symptoms
- 10. Other symptoms likely to occur with LBD (but not used for diagnosis) Autonomic problems Falls Unresponsiveness Other hallucinations Urinary system problems Delusions Anger, depression, sadness Difficulty swallowing Excessive daytime sleeping Restless Leg Syndrome
- 12. Office Phone: 404-935-6444 Office Email: [email_address] Website: www.lbda.org Helpline phone: 800-539-9767 800-LEWY-SOS Helpline email: [email_address] P.O. Box 451429 Atlanta, GA 31145 Contacting the LBDA Thank You for your participation in this learning experience. Increasing Knowledge Sharing Experience Building Hope
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