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Apparently, a typical one is a very brightly colored animal or person that you see in great detail for many minutes on a daily basis, like just intense hallucinations. I'm sure you think you're losing it. Right, and that's one of the first symptoms of Lewy body dementia.
Apparently, a typical one is a very brightly colored animal or person that you see in great detail for many minutes on a daily basis, like just intense hallucinations. I'm sure you think you're losing it. Right, and that's one of the first symptoms of Lewy body dementia.
Apparently, a typical one is a very brightly colored animal or person that you see in great detail for many minutes on a daily basis, like just intense hallucinations. I'm sure you think you're losing it. Right, and that's one of the first symptoms of Lewy body dementia.
And it was discovered by Frederick Louis in 1912. And it has has nothing to do with your body. A Louis body is there are deposits, again, protein deposits of the alpha synuclein that appear on the brain. So don't think of body in the terms of like your physical body. Right. And this is also present Lewy bodies and Parkinson's.
And it was discovered by Frederick Louis in 1912. And it has has nothing to do with your body. A Louis body is there are deposits, again, protein deposits of the alpha synuclein that appear on the brain. So don't think of body in the terms of like your physical body. Right. And this is also present Lewy bodies and Parkinson's.
And it was discovered by Frederick Louis in 1912. And it has has nothing to do with your body. A Louis body is there are deposits, again, protein deposits of the alpha synuclein that appear on the brain. So don't think of body in the terms of like your physical body. Right. And this is also present Lewy bodies and Parkinson's.
So as a result, not only are you going to have symptoms similar to Alzheimer's with Lewy body dementia, but also some of the tremors and balance issues of Parkinson's. Right. Which is super sad as well.
So as a result, not only are you going to have symptoms similar to Alzheimer's with Lewy body dementia, but also some of the tremors and balance issues of Parkinson's. Right. Which is super sad as well.
So as a result, not only are you going to have symptoms similar to Alzheimer's with Lewy body dementia, but also some of the tremors and balance issues of Parkinson's. Right. Which is super sad as well.
Is that what Michael J. Fox has? Parkinson's?
Is that what Michael J. Fox has? Parkinson's?
Is that what Michael J. Fox has? Parkinson's?
Yeah. And that's what the movie Awakenings was about, wasn't it? Like a group of Parkinson's patients that like El Doble worked on? Was that Parkinson's? I can't remember. I think they didn't realize what, they thought they were locked in or something. And then they realized their Parkinson's tremors were so acute that they were like, they were not even shaking. They were just frozen. Yeah.
Yeah. And that's what the movie Awakenings was about, wasn't it? Like a group of Parkinson's patients that like El Doble worked on? Was that Parkinson's? I can't remember. I think they didn't realize what, they thought they were locked in or something. And then they realized their Parkinson's tremors were so acute that they were like, they were not even shaking. They were just frozen. Yeah.
Yeah. And that's what the movie Awakenings was about, wasn't it? Like a group of Parkinson's patients that like El Doble worked on? Was that Parkinson's? I can't remember. I think they didn't realize what, they thought they were locked in or something. And then they realized their Parkinson's tremors were so acute that they were like, they were not even shaking. They were just frozen. Yeah.
Interesting. Their muscles were totally contracted rather than contracting and relaxing again and again. And Robin Williams. Yeah.
Interesting. Their muscles were totally contracted rather than contracting and relaxing again and again. And Robin Williams. Yeah.