New clinical trial seeks participants

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One of the Lewy Body Society’s main aims is to support research into Lewy body dementia, to help improve diagnosis and treatment of the disease in future. A new clinical trial started in 2018 at a number of different hospitals and research centres across the UK. If you or someone you know would like to […]

Invitation to research: Dementia with Lewy Bodies

We would like to invite you to take part in a new research study hosted by a research group based at Cardiff University. Since 2004 we have been interviewing people and collecting blood samples to try to understand more about how certain genes affect the likelihood of developing dementia. So far over 5000 people have […]

Interview: Dr Marzena Kurzawa-Akanbi, researcher at Newcastle University

We will soon be announcing the outcome of our grant award process and giving details of the projects we will be supporting in 2019.  Our grants programme, which is funded through the generous donations of Lewy Body Society supporters, helps to fund ground-breaking new research into Lewy body dementia. By working with some of the […]

New research funded by the Lewy Body Society

The Lewy Body Society is very pleased and proud to announce that it is now funding a 3 year clinical research fellowship to Dr Jay Amin at Southampton University. Dr Amin is investigating the role of systemic and central inflammation in dementia with Lewy bodies. The LBS does not have the capability to administer research […]

Bristol researchers Link LBD with Alzheimers

Researchers based in Bristol and London have uncovered a link between Lewy body diseases like Parkinson’s and the brain changes associated with Alzheimer’s. To read the full article just click the link.

Nobel Prize for the brain’s GPS discovery

The Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine has been awarded to three scientists who discovered the brain’s “GPS system”. UK-based researcher Prof John O’Keefe as well as May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser share the award. They discovered how the brain knows where we are and is able to navigate from one place to another. The […]

LBS research will speed up drug testing

Dr Tilo Kunath of the University of Edinburgh received funding from the Lewy Body Society to make live models of cortical neurons (brain cells) affected by dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) to be used to test new drugs for DLB. Dr Kunath’s team produced a significant advance which will speed up the testing of new […]

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