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Groundbreaking research finds that Alzheimer’s can be transmitted between people
In a major discovery, scientists have presented the first evidence of Alzheimer's disease transmission in living individuals.
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Refractory status epilepticus seen in the early phase of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
11 CJD can be difficult to diagnose due to the rapidly progressive ... the presence of larger confluent vacuoles suggests the possibility of mixed MM1+MM2C pathology. However, without frozen tissue, ...
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Expanding the prion paradigm . . . and other stories
Gastrointestinal mucosal damage and Parkinson’s disease Another idea about the aetiology of Parkinson’s disease is the gut-first hypothesis, which postulates that the initiating pathology ... in sheep ...
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Chronic wasting disease remains prevalent in local deer population
Related to bovine spongiform-encephalopathy (mad cow disease) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, CWD was originally ... director of the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center at Case ...
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Chronic wasting disease remains prevalent in deer population
Related to bovine spongiform-encephalopathy (mad cow disease) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, CWD was originally discovered ... director of the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center at ...
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The “pulvinar sign” in a case of paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis associated with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
1 Department of Neurology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan 2 Department of Pathology, Osaka University ... resembled the initial symptoms of variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob ...
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National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center
The National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center (NPDPSC) is the only Center of its kind in the U.S., which coordinates autopsies and neuropathologic examinations of suspected prion disease ...
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Pathology companies say bulk billing is at risk from rebate freezes, but health experts say they are 'bluffing'
If you've looked around the waiting room of your local GP clinic recently you may have noticed posters urging you to email your MP to "keep pathology bulk billed". The posters are part of a ...
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Unraveling Neurodegenerative Disease Pathology
Research led by the University of Michigan has provided compelling evidence that could solve a fundamental mystery in the makeup of fibrils that play a role in Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other ...
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MRI Findings Are Often Missed in the Diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
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 ...