lewy in English

noun

family name; Frederic H. Lewy (1885-1950), German-born United States neurologist who discovered the Lewy bodies

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1. Fritz Jacob Heinrich Lewy described the pathology of Paralysis Agitans [Parkinson disease] and was the first to identify eosinophilic inclusion bodies in neurons of certain brain nuclei, later known as Lewy bodies, the pathological signature of the Lewy body diseases

2. Lewy bodies are not rare in the brains of people with AD.

3. In Parkinson's disease (PD), ASYN misfolds into aggregates and concentrates in Lewy bodies, the hallmark of the disease.

4. These deposits, called Lewy Bodies, affect chemicals in the brain whose changes, in turn, can lead to problems with thinking, movement, behavior, and mood.