Dementia With Lewy Bodies - Cultural Reference

Cultural Reference

  • Kelsey Grammer's lead character, mayor of Chicago Tom Kane in the television series Boss, suffers from early-stage Lewy body dementia.
  • In the Japanese anime series Ghost Hound, psychiatrist Atsushi Hirata emails an MRI scan image of a brain to colleague neurologist Reika Ōtori, who initially diagnoses the brain in the image as showing signs of Lewy body dementia. He shocks her by saying the brain in the image is his own brain, and recent apparitions and altered states of consciousness experienced by him may be related to the depicted condition of his brain.

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