Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) is a brain disease that’s often misunderstood. It’s actually the second most common type of ...

We know inhaling polluted air harms our lungs—but what about our brains? According to compelling new research, pollution may put you at higher risk of being hospitalized for one of the most common ...

— Treatment of Parkinson's and Lewy body patient brain tissue with WTX-607 demonstrated highly specific binding to aggregates within neurons in patients' brain tissue and potent inhibition of ...

A certain type of air pollution has been connected to Lewy body dementia, the third most common form of dementia. The Guardian reported that researchers looked at a large number of medical records.

Stand at attention for an off-kilter sign of this particular kind of dementia. Nearly 7 million Americans have been diagnosed with dementia, which gradually destroys memory, thinking skills, and the ...

People living with a form of Lewy body dementia potentially have access to a promising investigational drug that appears to reduce or improve symptoms. Dr. Dave Shprecher is a movement disorder ...

This article is dedicated to my parents and to the millions of people across the world impacted by dementia. When I shifted my attention from what my mother could not remember to the life she has ...

Chinese citizens are now living as long as Americans, reaching a milestone nearly two decades earlier than experts had forecast, according to official data. Life expectancy in China has risen sharply ...

Polluted air leaves its mark on the brain. In the September 8 JAMA Neurology, Edward Lee and colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, report that two decades of autopsies reveal a ...

Lewy body dementia, or LBD, is a brain disease that affects many older adults. It is the second most common type of progressive dementia after Alzheimer’s disease. What makes LBD difficult to ...