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by Pokepokalypse 3543 days ago
LBD can only be diagnosed through microscopic analysis of brain tissue. Though symptom-checklists work, LBD patients are frequently misdiagnosed as PD or Alzheimer's. Some of the meds for those diseases make LBD symptoms much worse, so that is another way LBD can be identified. Happened with my mom.