Most dementia patients have multiple brain diseases. How should they be treated?

Dyed brain and tissue specimens. Close-up of dyed brain and other tissue specimen slices, mounted on glass slides and labelled and catalogued. This cataloguing is part of the process of preparing tissue specimens for inspection and analysis by a forensic pathologist. Post-mortem clinical specimens of human tissue are encased in wax, sliced, mounted on glass slides, dyed, and examined under a microscope.

source: Lewis Houghton/Science Source

Glad that the topic of “co-pathology” is starting to reach lay publications. Brain Support Network helps families with brain donation. We don’t often see neuropathology reports where there’s only one pathology listed! For example, Lewy body dementia commonly co-occurs with Alzheimer’s pathology.

Here’s an article about co-pathology in “Science” magazine.