Dementia with Lewy Bodies Consortium

The 2017 rewrite of the diagnostic criteria for DLB{{cite journal |vauthors=McKeith IG, Boeve BF, Dickson DW, et al |title=Diagnosis and management of dementia with Lewy bodies: Fourth consensus report of the DLB Consortium |journal=Neurology |volume=89 |issue=1 |pages=88–100 |date=July 2017 |pmid=28592453 |pmc=5496518 |doi=10.1212/WNL.0000000000004058 |type=Review }} was led by Ian G. McKeith of Newcastle University and supported by The National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, the Lewy Body Dementia Association, the Lewy Body Society, Alzheimer’s Association, Acadia Pharmaceuticals, Axovant Sciences, Banner Health, GE Healthcare, and Lundbeck.{{cite web |url= https://www.lbda.org/newdlbcriteria |publisher= Lewy Body Dementia Association, Inc. |title= New Diagnostic Criteria Published for DLB |date= 2016 |accessdate= March 22, 2018 |archive-date= March 23, 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180323092308/https://www.lbda.org/newdlbcriteria |url-status= dead }}

The 2015 DLBC in the United States is a project of the Parkinson's Disease BioMarker Program of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke that "establishes a group of centers dedicated to the study of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) ... to allow for the discovery of a biomarker for DLB to improve the diagnosis, care, and treatment of patients with this disease".{{cite web |publisher= National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke |work= Parkinson's Disease Biomarker Program|url= https://pdbp.ninds.nih.gov/Dementia-with-Lewy-Bodies-Consortium |title= Dementia with Lewy Bodies Consortium (U01): Summary | accessdate = May 14, 2020}}

As of 2020, it includes nine centers that have Lewy body dementia experts who have "strong connections to the Lewy body dementia research and general community". The DLBC will "formalize and strengthen already existing collaboration among the participating centers". The nine centers as of 2018 are:

• Cleveland Clinic
• Florida Atlantic University
• Thomas Jefferson University
• Rush University
• University of California San Diego
• University of North Carolina
• University of Pennsylvania
• University of Pittsburgh
• VA Puget Sound Health Care System - University of Washington

The DLBC is funded by a "$6 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health";{{cite press release |url=https://consultqd.clevelandclinic.org/new-research-consortium-gives-dementia-with-lewy-bodies-its-due/ |publisher= Cleveland Clinic |title= New Research Consortium Gives Dementia with Lewy Bodies Its Due |author= Leverenz, James and Babak Tousi |date= October 2, 2017 |accessdate= March 22, 2018}} Also [https://newsroom.clevelandclinic.org/2017/06/13/cleveland-clinic-receives-nih-grant-to-establish-national-consortium-for-studying-lewy-body-dementia/ Press release] it was also funded by the Lewy Body Dementia Association and GE Healthcare.

• {{cite book | veditors = Kosaka K | title = Dementia with Lewy bodies: clinical and biological aspects | edition= 1st | year = 2017 | publisher = Springer | location = Japan | doi = 10.1007/978-4-431-55948-1 | isbn = 978-4-431-55948-1 |vauthors= McKeith IG |chapter = Chapter 5: Clinical diagnostic criteria for dementia with Lewy bodies}}

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• [https://pdbp.ninds.nih.gov/Dementia-with-Lewy-Bodies-Consortium Official website of US DLBC]
• {{cite journal |vauthors=McKeith IG |title=Consensus guidelines for the clinical and pathologic diagnosis of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB): report of the Consortium on DLB International Workshop |journal=J. Alzheimers Dis. |volume=9 |issue=3 Suppl |pages=417–23 |date=2006 |pmid=16914880|doi=10.3233/JAD-2006-9S347 }}

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