Brief Descriptions of LBD, FTD, LATE, and vascular dementia

source: Robert Samuel Hanson via NYT

This is a short New York Times explanation of other main types of dementia, besides Alzheimer’s, including vascular dementia (the second most common type of dementia), Lewy body dementia (where there’s a “constellation of symptoms involving the whole body”), frontotemporal dementia (rare), and LATE (limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy, which, like Alzheimer’s, primarily causes memory loss). LBD is “thought to be underdiagnosed” because cases are not easy to recognize since patients with LBD look very different from each other. In Brain Support Network’s brain donation work, we have seen that LBD is overdiagnosed!