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Lewy body dementia is diagnosed using detailed patient history, physical examination of the patient, medical imaging of the brain, a sleep study, and a test of the cardiac nerves. Patients with Lewy body dementia may report, or have a caretaker report, symptoms such as tremors, fluctuation in...
REM sleep behavior disorderPhenoconversionNeurodegenerationDisclosureEthicsLewy body dementiaParkinson’s diseasePurpose of Review People with isolated REM (rapid eye movement) sleep behavior disorder (iRBD) have a high lifetime risk of developing a neurodegenerative disease, including dementia, but ...
Sleep is not "downtime." During deep sleep, your brain gets power washed of toxic metabolites that can put you at risk for chronic diseases and dementia.
Many of these earlier onset cases have a family history, but they do not report whether common PD genes were screened for mutations, therefore it is difficult to fully dissect whether the POLG mutation is causative of the PD-like symptoms. However, the incidence of these symptoms in patients ...
Perhaps we are afraid and don’t want to acknowledge what dementia could do to us or our loved ones. We may feel that patients with dementia have nothing to tell us that we don’t already know. Or maybe we’re just too busy or impatient to take the time. But what my mother has ...
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