title: Imaging in Dementia With Lewy Bodies: An Overview.
abstract: Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) while common in older age can present a diagnostic challenge to clinicians and is often misdiagnosed as Alzheimer disease (AD). Imaging studies have improved our understanding of the neurobiological changes in DLB during life and how they differ from AD. This has led to significant advances in the development of new techniques, such as dopaminergic imaging, which can aid the clinical diagnosis. Other functional imaging methods also show promise in helping to assess the influence of differing pathologies in DLB, most notably, AD-related and vascular pathology during life. This article will provide an overview of the main imaging findings in DLB.
authors: The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Parkville, Victoria, Australia Department of Medicine, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia rosie.watson@mh.org.au.
authors: Rosie
authors: R
authors: Watson
authors: Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, Campus for Ageing and Vitality, Newcastle upon Tyne, The United Kingdom.
authors: Sean J
authors: SJ
authors: Colloby
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D001284:Atrophy / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D001921:Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D003704:Dementia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D016631:Lewy Bodies / Q000473:pathology; D020961:Lewy Body Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
keywords: Alzheimer’s; Lewy body; MRI; dementia; imaging