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Dementia With Lewy Bodies: Clinical, Pathological, and Treatment Issues
edited by Robert H. Perry, Ian G. McKeith, and Elaine K. Perry, 510 pp, w/illus, $120, New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Arch Neurol. 1998;55:255-256.
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Dementia in our aging population is a growing concern at national, local, family, and personal levels. Recent evidence reveals that a significant proportion of individuals with dementia have a unique brain pathology, most strikingly characterized by the presence of cortical Lewy bodies. Lewy body dementia (LBD) is now recognized as a clinically and pathologically distinct syndrome, embodying pathologies from both Alzheimer disease and Parkinson disease. The current volume represents the first comprehensive compilation devoted to LBD.
A result of a workshop held in 1995 in Newcastle, England, the contributions in this work are organized into 3 sections, each followed by a succinct and useful summary of discussions held during the workshop. Not surprisingly, a major theme throughout the volume relates to the features that distinguish LBD from Alzheimer disease and other dementias.
The first section is on clinical issues and contains 14 chapters describing the cognitive psychiatric symptoms and motor . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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