The first signs of Lewy Body Dementia include Visual hallucinations, depression, movement disorders, poor regulation of body functions, apathy, Cognitive problems, sleep difficulty and fluctuating attention.
Other signs of Lewy Body Dementia are Well-formed visual hallucinations, Delusions, Changes in thinking and reasoning, Confusion and alertness that varies significantly from one time of day to another or from one day to the next and also Slowness, gait imbalance and other parkinsonian movement features.
Lewy body dementia is dementia which is also known as dementia with Lewy bodies.
The Lewy Body Dementia is the second most common type of progressive dementia after Alzheimer's disease dementia.
Protein deposits, called Lewy bodies, develop in nerve cells in the brain regions involved in thinking, memory and movement (motor control).
Lewy body dementia (LBD) is a disease associated with abnormal deposits of a protein called alpha-synuclein in the brain.
These deposits are called Lewy bodies and they affect chemicals in the brain whose changes, in turn, can lead to problems with thinking, movement, behavior, and mood.