What is Lewy Body Disease?

Lewy body disease is an age-related disease that slowly damages the brain. It’s a spectrum disease, which means it can be found in people with Parkinson’s disease.

People with Lewy body disease can experience typical symptoms, such as issues with attention, memory and spatial awareness.

You may experience:

-Sometimes feeling alert and other times confused
-Slowed movement, rigidity, tremors and loss of facial expression
-Prominent visuospatial and perceptual disturbances, with hallucinations common
-Difficulty making decisions or reasoning.
-You can learn more about Lewy body disease and related disorders from our help sheet.

[angelflower]

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[lor]

This has been the only thing I found on it everything else is lewy body dementia I cannot find anything on disease. My dad was just diagnosed and I am lost because I hardly know what it is

[MAVERICK]

It is the most hideous disease. My 90 year old mother is in a constant state of hallucinations both visually and auditory. She is always cursing and fighting with her imaginary enemies. She also has alzeimers disease on top of her lewy body. Double whammy. I won't even mention her bipolar disorder. It's like takng care of a tiger. I wish they had Real therapies, but they dont.

[tamarasmiles]

no mention of the cause ... or even theory being researched .. a treatment for symptoms using anti psychotic meds is mentioned - but that is just a very inofficient bandaid for the symptoms