Evidence of Alzheimer's in patients with Lewy body disease tracks with course of dementia
Thursday, January 5, 2017 - 12:31
in Health & Medicine
Patients who had a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease with dementia or dementia with Lewy bodies and had higher levels of Alzheimer's disease pathology in their donated post-mortem brains also had more severe symptoms of these Lewy body diseases during their lives, compared to those whose brains had less AD pathology.