Background: Establishing a confident clinical diagnosis before an advanced stage of illness can be difficult in Creutzfeldt-Jakob ... disease specialist unit could facilitate earlier diagnosis ...

The detailed structure of a misfolded protein from a diseased deer could help explain why the disease hasn’t made the leap to humans.

Her brain magnetic resonance imaging scan showed bilateral posterior thalamic hyperintensities ... disturbance and resembled the initial symptoms of variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD).

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a prion disease clinically characterised by ... to be of little value for definite premortem diagnosis, which still depends on brain biopsy. Corresponding to cognitive ...

MRI of the brain demonstrated cortical ribboning ... When encountering patients with rapid cognitive decline and atypical neurological symptoms, consider Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) as a ...

By scanning the brains of people while they watched movie clips, neuroscientists have created the most detailed functional ...

Johns Hopkins University-led researchers, working with the Biomarkers for Older Controls at Risk for Dementia (BIOCARD) ...

The researchers plan to validate their findings by replicating the methods with a wider range of subjects receiving brain scans as they process ambiguous cues. They also plan on administering ...

A pioneering new study links satellite and brain imaging data to identify how environmental factors can impact mental health, cognition and brain development in young people.

The majority of studies on the brain’s functional networks have been based on fMRI scans of people at rest. However, many parts of the brain or cortex are not fully active if external ...

By imaging much faster and with less harm to brain ... Advanced MRI Scans Help Identify One in Three Concussion Patients With 'Hidden Disease' Aug. 9, 2024 — Offering patients with concussion a ...