Opening lecture The International DLB Consortium

The first DLB Consortium meeting was held in Newcastle upon Tyne in October 1995, thirty years before the 2025 meeting in Amsterdam.  In this opening lecture, Ian McKeith will recap some of the events that have shaped DLB over three decades during which DLB has progressed from being a relatively unknown cause of dementia, into a disorder which is now recognised by the two most significant clinical diagnostic systems used worldwide, (DSM5 and ICD11).   He will demonstrate that a lot has changed over that time, and will ask whether a lot has also stayed the same. To what extent can lessons learned from DLB’s past inform its future development?