American actor Robin Williams had a neurodegenerative brain disease called dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB): a distressing…
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When I finished my training I was taught that the vast majority of dementia was Alzheimer's disease, with occasional cases of…
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When I finished my training, I was taught that the vast majority of dementia was Alzheimer’s disease, with occasional cases of…
Dans les mois qui ont suivi le suicide de Robin Williams en 2014, des chercheurs de la Mailman School of Public Health de l’Unive…
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Robin Williams was trapped inside his own rapidly-deteriorating brain, which was being overtaken by what his wife refers to as…
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The journal Neurology published a unique and touching paper today: it's by artist Susan Schneider Williams, the widow of actor…