The Science of Lewy Body Dementia
This week in SciShow News we dissect what a Lewy Body is and what they are capable of doing. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters -- we...
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Here at SciShow, we don’t cover a lot of celebrity news, unless we’re talking about celebrity engineers and scientists. When we do, we’re usually here to explain something science-related that’s happened in a celebrity’s life. So today we’re going to talk about Robin Williams, whose autopsy has shown that he was suffering from the early stages of a disease called Lewy body dementia. This condition is debilitating, and...surprisingly common, for something that most people have never heard of until recently. But it’s the second most common cause of dementia, after Alzheimer’s disease. It’s also the most frequently misdiagnosed cause of dementia, partly because it’s often mistaken for Parkinson’s disease...until the hallucinations set in. ...
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Here at SciShow, we don’t cover a lot of celebrity news, unless we’re talking about celebrity engineers and scientists. When we do, we’re usually here to explain something science-related that’s happened in a celebrity’s life. So today we’re going to talk about Robin Williams, whose autopsy has shown that he was suffering from the early stages of a disease called Lewy body dementia. This condition is debilitating, and...surprisingly common, for something that most people have never heard of until recently. But it’s the second most common cause of dementia, after Alzheimer’s disease. It’s also the most frequently misdiagnosed cause of dementia, partly because it’s often mistaken for Parkinson’s disease...until the hallucinations set in. ...
