"Body-first" dementia with Lewy bodies

Affiliations

¹ Autonomic Medicine Section (AMS), Clinical Neurosciences Program (CNP), Division of Intramural Research (DIR), National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), 10 Center Drive MSC-1620, Building 10 Room 8N260, Bethesda, MD, 20892-1620, USA. goldsteind@ninds.nih.gov.
² AMS/CNP/DIR/NINDS/NIH, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA.
³ Flow and Imaging Cytometry Core Facility, DIR/NINDS/NIH, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA.
⁴ TSE/Prion Biochemistry Section, DIR, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Hamilton, MT, 59840, USA.
⁵ Department of Neurology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.

David S Goldstein et al. Clin Auton Res. 2025 Aug.

. 2025 Aug;35(4):623-627.

doi: 10.1007/s10286-025-01128-6. Epub 2025 Apr 21.

¹ Autonomic Medicine Section (AMS), Clinical Neurosciences Program (CNP), Division of Intramural Research (DIR), National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), 10 Center Drive MSC-1620, Building 10 Room 8N260, Bethesda, MD, 20892-1620, USA. goldsteind@ninds.nih.gov.
² AMS/CNP/DIR/NINDS/NIH, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA.
³ Flow and Imaging Cytometry Core Facility, DIR/NINDS/NIH, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA.
⁴ TSE/Prion Biochemistry Section, DIR, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Hamilton, MT, 59840, USA.
⁵ Department of Neurology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: Body-first; Catecholamine; Dementia; Lewy; Synuclein.

Conflict of interest statement

Declarations. Conflict of interest: The authors have declared that no conflict of interest exists.

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