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LBD
(redirected from Lewy body dementia)

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LBDLittle Black Dress
LBDLigand Binding Domain
LBDLewy Body Dementia (aka Lewy Body Disease)
LBDLesbian Bed Death
LBDLondon Beth Din
LBDLaser Beam Detector
LBDLittle Black Duck
LBDLost Bather Drill (Life guarding)
LBDLocal Bills Discounted
LBDLaser Beam Defocus (mechanism)


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The new mutation, E46K, of alpha-synuclein causes Parkinson and Lewy body dementia.
Included illnesses are Alzheimer's, stroke and other vascular dementias, Parkinson's disease, frontal temporal dementias, traumatic brain injury, Huntington's disease, multiple sclerosis, Lewy body dementias, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, HIV dementia and those caused by brain tumors, and other disorders.
The combination of gait/balance impairment with cognitive impairment is problematic, especially in Lewy Body Dementia, which tends to have some parkinsonian features, fluctuation in cognitive impairment and hallucinations.
 
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