Your Fantastic Mind Season 2 Episode 7: Lewy Body Dementia

Dr. John Dougherty was a leading neurologist in Knoxville Tennessee. A passionate advocate for the diagnosis and treatment of those with dementia, as the head of Cole Neuroscience Center at the University of Tennessee Medical Center, Dr. Dougherty treated 30 thousand patients over the years including iconic University of Tennessee women’s basketball coach Pat Summit. Today, at 75-years-old, Dr. Dougherty is more than a year into his diagnosis of Lewy Body Dementia, the second-most common form of dementia.

[@mkagast]

Thank you for this. My husband was diagnosed with Lewy Body in 2018 and we have been blessed with an excellent medical team that recognized it for what it was. This video really helps to humanize the disease. I wish I would have taken more time along the way - especially during COVID - to take advantage of the things he could still do, while he could still do them. Hugs to all of you on this journey.

[@mcc1483]

Dr. Dohn Dougherty, you are the first person/doctor to explain to me why at the beginning LBD does not affect memory, while Alzheimer's does. That was something I struggled with for so long w my father's dementia. I just could not figure out why his memory was intact yet he was struggling with all the other dementia symptoms. Knowing that would have made the LBD diagnosis very clear early on. I Wish Dad could have seen you years ago. Thank you and best wishes, thoughts, prayers and happy days.

[@mikemiller1884]

A touching story! Thank you Dr. John Dougherty for sharing..

[@billymccaughey3741]

Thanks for your story.

[@257rani]

Thanks Dr. John D.I am 70years old. I have a mixed dementia with Lewy body, like you I knew it was not Alzheimer's. I have read and understand the symptoms I was having was of lewy body. I am on my journey now.long term memory okay. Now I cannot read or see numbers.

[@pinoymercatino219]

Are you having hallucinations ??

[@brianlarson1952]

Keep going your ausome I feel like I have it