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What is Lewy body dementia?

After Robin Williams' widow's recent Good Morning America interview, there has been a lot of questions about Lewy body dementia and how it might have played a role in his suicide in August of 2014. After his death, the coroner found evidence of this disease as well as the signs of Parkinson's disease which he had been diagnosed with a few months earlier.

After Robin Williams' widow's recent Good Morning America interview, there has been a lot of questions about Lewy Body dementia and how it might have played a role in his suicide in August of 2014. After his death, the coroner found evidence of this disease as well as the signs of Parkinson's disease, which he had been diagnosed with a few months earlier.

To learn more about what Lewy body dementia is and how it affects the body, click here.

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