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CNN — After Robin Williams died by suicide in August 2014, his widow, Susan Schneider Williams, would soon learn about a disease she had never heard of, but one that had haunted both of their...
Williams was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease a few months before he died; the telltale signs of Lewy body dementia in his brain were not discovered until an autopsy.
Lewy body dementia is common, but simultaneously almost unheard of. Read this to learn about the cause, symptoms and challenges faced by patients and their families — and by actor Robin...
Awareness of Lewy body dementia has spiked since Robin Williams' death in 2014. But it's a complicated, often misunderstood neurological disorder.
What Williams never found out was that he had been suffering from the neurological disease Lewy body dementia, a diagnosis that only came to his widow with a post-mortem following his death. Medical professionals said it was one of the worst cases they had ever seen.
After his death his family learned his anxiety and mental health strains were caused by neurodegenerative disorder Lewy Body Dementia. The film explores this condition and the pain it...
His feelings of depression only intensified years later with the onset of diffuse Lewy body dementia, which went undetected until an autopsy after his suicide at age 63.
Although actor Robin Williams died by suicide, the underlying cause of his death was a rare brain disease called Lewy body dementia, according to his widow.
A progressive brain disorder in which microscopic protein deposits, called Lewy bodies, develop in the brain. Lewy body dementia (LBD) has symptoms that often include changes in...
In interviews with People magazine and with ABC News, the widow, Susan Schneider Williams, laid the blame for her husband’s suicide in 2014 not on depression but on diffuse Lewy body...