Neurology 2012;79:1938–1939 Lewy bodies, protein aggregations classically associated with Parkinson disease (PD) substantia nigra neurons, are not limited to the brainstem.1 Over time, pathologists developed terms such as “diffuse Lewy body disease” (DLBD) to describe autopsy cases in which Lewy bodies even extended to the neocortex.2 Efforts soon followed to define a clinical syndrome that pre...

BACKGROUND Few patients are reported with dementia with Lewy bodies before fifty years-old, which may partly reflect the difficulty of accurate diagnosis in young population. We report the case of a 44-year-old male with pathologically confirmed sporadic dementia with Lewy bodies, who did not fulfil the revised clinical criteria for this disease. CASE PRESENTATION We document this atypical ca...

Yamakami (Theoret. Comput. Sci., 2011) studies non-uniform context-free languages. Here, the length of advice is assumed to be the same as that of an input. Let CFL and CFL/n denote the class of all context-free languages and its nonuniform version, respectively. We let CFL(2) denote the class of intersections of two context-free languages. An interesting direction of a research is asking how c...

OBJECTIVE Idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a potential preclinical marker for the development of neurodegenerative diseases, particularly Parkinson disease (PD) and Lewy body dementia. However, the long-term risk of developing neurodegeneration in patients with idiopathic RBD has not been established. Obtaining an accurate picture of this risk is essential for counseling patients...

Yamakami (Theoret. Comput. Sci., 2011) studies context-free languages with advice functions. Here, the length of an advice is assumed to be the same as that of an input. Let CFL and CFL/n denote the class of all context-free languages and that with advice functions, respectively. We let CFL(2) denote the class of intersections of two context-free languages. An interesting direction of a researc...

1 McKeith IG, Fairbairn AF, Perry RH, Thompson P. The clinical diagnosis and misdiagnosis of senile dementia of Lewy body type (SDLT). Br J Psychiatry 1994;165: 324-32. 2 Crystal HA, Dickson DW, Lizardi JE, Davies P, Wolfson LI. Antemortem diagnosis of diffuse Lewy body disease. Neurology 1990;40: 1523-8. 3 Byrne EJ, Lennox GG, Godwin-Austen RB, et al. Dementia associated with cortical Lewy bod...

Dementia with cortical Lewy bodies (LBD) was first described by Okazaki et al in 1961 and is now recognised as a relatively common cause of the dementia syndrome. The true prevalence of LBD is unknown. In post-mortem studies of patients diagnosed as having dementia in life, the mean frequency of Lewy body dementia is 12.5% (Byrne, 1997). Clinically diagnosed LBD (using operational clinical crit...

In this paper, a spectral-element discontinuous Galerkin (SEDG) lattice Boltzmann discretization and an exponential time-marching scheme are used to study the flow field past two circular cylinders in tandem arrangement. The basic idea is to discretize the streaming step of the lattice Boltzmann equation by using SEDG method to get a system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) whose exact ...