A neurodegenerative disease characterized by dementia, mild parkinsonism, and fluctuations in attention and alertness. The neuropsychiatric manifestations tend to precede the onset of bradykinesia, MUSCLE RIGIDITY, and other extrapyramidal signs. DELUSIONS and visual HALLUCINATIONS are relatively frequent in this condition. Histologic examination reveals LEWY BODIES in the CEREBRAL CORTEX and BRAIN STEM. SENILE PLAQUES and other pathologic features characteristic of ALZHEIMER DISEASE may also be present. (From Neurology 1997;48:376-380; Neurology 1996;47:1113-1124)
    

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Dementia with Lewy bodies : clinical, pathological, and treatment issues / edited by R.H. Perry, I.G, McKeith, E.K. Perry ; foreword by Jeffrey L. Cummings.

Dementia with Lewy bodies / Parkinson's UK.

A guide to dementia science / Alzheimer's Society.

Dad's not all there any more / Alex Demetris.

The Lewy Body Society : the more people who know, the fewer people suffer : Hudson House, 8 Albany Street, Edinburgh EH1 3QB.

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Dementia with Lewy bodies : clinical, pathological, and treatment issues / edited by R.H. Perry, I.G, McKeith, E.K. Perry ; foreword by Jeffrey L. Cummings.

Dementia with Lewy bodies / Parkinson's UK.

A guide to dementia science / Alzheimer's Society.

Dad's not all there any more / Alex Demetris.

The Lewy Body Society : the more people who know, the fewer people suffer : Hudson House, 8 Albany Street, Edinburgh EH1 3QB.