Dementia with Lewy bodies: Why are some brain regions more affected than others?

Dementia with Lewy bodies is 1 of the astir communal forms of dementia successful older adults, aft Alzheimer's disease. It takes its sanction from "Lewy bodies," abnormal clumps of a macromolecule called alpha-synuclein, archetypal identified by neurologist Friedrich Lewy, that accumulate wrong neurons and lend to damaging them. The illness manifests done ocular hallucinations, fluctuating cognition, agitated and often convulsive movements during dreams, and centrifugal symptoms akin to those of Parkinson's disease.