Further evidence validating tests for both sporadic or classic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and variant CJD (vCJD) has been reported in 2 new studies, both published recently in JAMA Neurology. The ...

Everything was normal for Arlene VonMyhr, until it wasn’t. VonMyhr, 55, and her husband, Gary, celebrated the University of Michigan clinching a national championship on Jan. 8. That night, she woke ...

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. Compared ...

A woman's human growth hormone treatments in childhood may have sealed her fate decades later, according to a new case report. Reading time 3 minutes The grim reaper can sometimes take decades to ...

Three people in Hood River County have contacted Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease over the span of eight months, an unusual pattern for an incredibly rare disease. Reading time 3 minutes A small Oregon ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Health officials in Hood River County confirmed Monday that two local deaths have been linked to a rare brain disease within the last eight months. During that period, the county said ...

It started with small symptoms at first. Jen Nimsick noticed her mother had a slight tremor and issues walking, but she knew what it meant. Over the next nine months, Nimsick watched as a rare genetic ...

An iron imbalance caused by prion proteins collecting in the brain is a likely cause of cell death in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine ...

Dementia is more than memory loss, and rare types can affect vision, movement, and behavior. Recognizing these symptoms early ...

The brain MRI is important for the diagnosis of prion disease for ruling out other possible etiologies, but it can also show features suggestive of prion disease. Brain MRI findings are found in most ...