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SUBMITTER: Guerreiro R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4759606 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Neurobiology of aging 20151102
The similarities between dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and both Parkinson's disease (PD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) are many and range from clinical presentation, to neuropathological characteristics, to more recently identified, genetic determinants of risk. Because of these overlapping features, diagnosing DLB is challenging and has clinical implications since some therapeutic agents that are applicable in other diseases have adverse effects in DLB. Having shown that DLB shares some geneti ...[more]