While Alzheimer’s disease is the most common type of dementia, there’s another variation that is also relatively prevalent. Lewy body dementia (LBD) affects more than 1 million people in the US. It is ...

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New data from a phase IIb trial extension study suggested that investigational neflamapimod led to significant improvements ...

Treatment with neflamapimod slowed clinical worsening and led to reduced disease-related plasma biomarkers in individuals with dementia with Lewy bodies, according to a speaker at CTAD. “Dementia with ...

New research suggests that two proteins, amyloid- and phosphorylated tau, the key proteins of Alzheimer's disease, are detected in blood once symptoms have started in Lewy's body diseases, such as ...

The experimental drug neflamapimod reduced a key biomarker of neurodegeneration, which correlated with a slowing of cognitive ...

Q: My husband was just diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia. Can you help me understand this? A: I am sorry about this recent diagnosis. Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) is a complex and challenging brain ...

(WNDU) - We all know about Alzheimer’s disease, in fact, many of us know someone who has been impacted by it. But there is another form of dementia that affects more than a million Americans. And yet, ...

Lewy body dementia is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder brought on by an excess of the protein alpha-synuclein in the brain. These deposits, known as Lewy bodies, can inhibit the production of ...

Lewy body diseases -- Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies -- should be defined as neuronal alpha-synuclein disease, not as clinical syndromes, a new position paper proposed. "Parkinson's ...

Nilotinib (Tasigna) — a drug for myeloid leukemia — improved biomarkers and cognitive outcomes in study participants with dementia with Lewy bodies, a new study finds. The phase II trial was small, ...