All Posts: movement disorders

• Georgetown Offers Multiple Clinical Trials for People with Lewy Body Dementia

  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 […]

  Category: News Release Tags: biomedical research, clinical trials, Lewy body dementia, movement disorders, Translational Neurotherapeutics Program

• Shedding Light on Lewy Body Disease

  (May 30, 2019) — Though many people are familiar with Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases, fewer have heard of Lewy body dementia, a neurodegenerative disorder with similar symptoms. “I think more awareness needs to be out there because Lewy body disease is probably just as prevalent as Parkinson’s,” said Fernando Pagan, MD (M’96), professor of neurology […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Alzheimer's disease, brain, Lewy body dementia, mind, movement disorders, Parkinson's disease