What Is Lewy Body?
3. Cognitive Symptoms
Damage to cells of the cerebral and limbic cortices affects perception, thoughts, speech, emotions, and behavior. Resulting symptoms of dementia include disorientation and lack of control of emotions. Patients may be confused about where they are and struggle to use words and numbers.
Patients can become depressed and apathetic or express anxiety about real or imagined problems. Delusions, paranoia, and hallucinations also occur and are considered psychoses. Memory is not usually affected until later stages when Lewy bodies accumulate in the hippocampus
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