Getting an LBD diagnosis is sometimes a process of elimination. Jerome Rafferty was finally diagnosed with Lewy body dementia after previous diagnoses of Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia.
Using a framework for MRI called STAND-Map, Mayo Clinic researchers are able to correctly differentiate between LBD and two other common types of dementia as often as 75 percent to 80 percent of the time.
Along with colleagues, James Galvin, M.D., M.P.H., an associate professor at Washington University have modeled Parkinson's-associated dementia for the first time. Their results are reported in the journal Sleep and summarized here.
05/25/2009 - A couple sets out to an adventurous bike trek from Seattle, WA., down the West Coast to meet and film interviews with people they are calling Children of Young-Onset Dementia.
MRI and PET may be able to help distinguish between Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body dementia patients, reported a Mayo Clinic researcher at the recent American Academy of Neurology meeting.
