Share to ClassroomPatrick Stewart Dies After Brain Disease
Patrick Stewart was a famous English actor. He was in "Star Trek" and "X-Men". He died on Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 86. His family says he had two brain diseases. One was Alzheimer's disease. The other was Lewy body dementia.
Dementia is an illness that slowly hurts memory and thinking. In Lewy body dementia, small bits of protein grow inside the brain. People with this disease can forget things. Their attention can change from hour to hour. Some people see things that are not there. They can also find it hard to move.
Doctors say this disease is hard to find. There is no cure. But medicine can help with the problems. It usually starts after age 50. The actor Robin Williams also had this disease. Doctors found it after he died in 2014.
