Open AccessEarly Discriminatory Diagnosis of Dementia with Lewy Bodies
Author(s) -
Dag Aarsland,
Martin Kurz,
Mona K. Beyer,
Kolbjørn Brønnick,
Sabine Nore,
Clive Ballard
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.026
H-Index - 110
eISSN - 1421-9824
pISSN - 1420-8008
DOI - 10.1159/000113417
Subject(s) - dementia with lewy bodies , dementia , degenerative disease , psychology , alzheimer's disease , central nervous system disease , medicine , psychiatry , neuroscience , disease , pathology
The clinical diagnostic criteria for dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) have a low sensitivity, and there are no generally accepted biomarkers to distinguish DLB from other dementias. Our aim was to identify biomarkers that may differentiate DLB from Alzheimer's disease (AD).
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