People who died with sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease were more likely to have been prescribed antidepressants before neurologic symptoms started, a retrospective study in Austria showed.

In humans, a very similar disease called Creutzfeldt-Jakob causes slow degeneration of the brain. It is believed that mad cow disease in humans is a new variant of that disease. How common is mad cow ...

Background: Establishing a confident clinical diagnosis before an advanced stage of illness can be difficult in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) but unlike common causes of dementia, prion diseases ...

MedLine stated that the disease causes complications similar to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease ... the body were at most risk of developing kuru. Symptoms of kuru – which translates to "trembling ...

The preliminary structure of the misfolded protein that causes mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease looks like a coiled mattress spring. A study of deceased patients who received injections ...

Human prion disease, also called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), results from ... Now, patients showing symptoms of a rapidly progressive form of dementia can get a definitive answer, quickly ...

The discovery of ‘new variant’ Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) was announced in March 1996. By mid-1997, several lines of evidence linked vCJD with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the ...

Some died from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a degenerative brain ... in the new study had developed CJD, but five showed symptoms consistent with early-onset Alzheimer's.