2023-09-22 14:59:33
The death of Robin Williams was a painful event for the world of cinema and its followers. The demonstrations of respect and affection for the performer at that time showed that it was not necessary to be a fan of him or to have seen all of his films to feel his death. Today, nine years later, Susan Schneider, the widow of Robin Williams, revealed the real cause of the actor’s death.
In her first interview referring to the subject, Susan was clear in her statements: “It wasn’t depression that killed Robin. “Depression was one of, say, fifty symptoms, and one of the smallest,” she stated.
“The doctors told me following the autopsy: ‘Are you surprised that your husband had Lewy bodies throughout his brain and brain stem?‘I didn’t even know what Lewy bodies were,’ the woman confessed in the conversation with the media. The Guardian.
Dementia with Lewy bodies: the cause of death of Robin Williams
Dementia with Lewy bodies is a neurodegenerative brain disorder that can cause alterations in thinking, movement, behavior, and moodas explained by Official US site of the National Institute on Aging.
This pathology has certain similarities with Alzheimer’s. In North America, more than 1 million people with this common manifestation of dementia. The disease, being progressive, means that the initial symptoms are mild, but they worsen over time.
This diagnosis rectified what Susan Schneider and Robin Williams’ relatives had hoped to know for years: the comedian suffered from a specific condition, and had been misdiagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. ‘I’m not surprised,’ the woman told the medical team when they gave her the autopsy result. “That something had infiltrated every part of my husband’s brain made all the sense in the world,” she confessed in the interview.
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