UPDATE: Dementia: part 1

• Published in: Chemist & Druggist p. 12
• Main Author: Feetam, Celia
• Format: Trade Publication Article
• Language: English
• Published: London CMP Information Ltd 17.11.2012
• Subjects: Aging; Alzheimer's disease; Brain; Cognition & reasoning; Dementia; Huntingtons disease; Illnesses; Medical diagnosis; Memory; Older people; Parkinson's disease; Patients; Personality; Pharmacology

At post-mortem, DLB is characterised by the presence of [Lewy] bodies in the cerebral cortex and substantia nigra. Lewy bodies are also found in post-mortem brains of people with Parkinson's disease, Pick's disease and Huntington's chorea. Sufferers are extremely sensitive to extrapyr...