10 Symptoms of Lewy Body Dementia
Reviewed: Dr. Gromatzky
Dementia is a relatively common condition that tends to affect people in old age. Its affects can be devastating not only on the patient but also to the people that are closest to them. There is more than one type of dementia, and Lewy body dementia is one of them.
Lewy bodies are abnormal deposits of a type of protein that is known as alpha-synuclein. These deposits affect the chemicals in the brain, and this leads to a range of symptoms that are more or less typical of other types of dementia. There is no known cure, but treatments are available that can at least reduce the severity of symptoms.
