Lewy body dementia

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Lewy body dementia

Shares clinical and pathological features of other dementias that may occur during the course of Parkinson’s disease and other neurological conditions. Pathologically, it is characterized by abnormal aggregation of, so called α-synuclein synaptic protein as ‘Lewy bodies’ in neurons associated with cerebral atrophy.