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Newswise — WASHINGTON (October 8, 2019) – Georgetown University Medical Center, a Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) Association Research Center of Excellence, is now offering three clinical trials to study new treatments for LBD, a disease often confused with Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease.
Lewy body dementia has similar symptoms to both Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases—some people experience movement symptoms, including tremor, rigidity and difficulty balancing while in others, cognitive problems are more prominent.
“Lewy body disease is probably just as prevalent as Parkinson’s,” says Fernando Pagan, MD (M’96), professor and vice chair of neurology at Georgetown University School of Medicine and director of the…
