The Hamilton scientists were able to map a CWD prion, the misfolded protein that causes the deadly brain disease, to the near ...

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

Most people with mixed dementia have difficulty speaking and walking as the disease progresses. Normal ... brain damage occurs. Doctors may be able to cure NPH with surgery. Creutzfeldt-Jakob ...

The scientists were able to map a CWD prion, the misfolded protein that causes the deadly brain disease ... variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. CWD is also similar to scrapie, which can infect ...

Background: Establishing a confident clinical diagnosis before an advanced stage of illness can be difficult in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD ... is reported as normal, a specialist MRI review ...

someone taking pituitary-derived growth hormone developed a fatal brain disease that causes dementia called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). Researchers suspected there may be a link between ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anti-GSC antibodies were also determined in 53 consecutive GBS patients without ophthalmoplegia (GBS-OP(−)), 20 normal subjects (normal control ... and stroke-like episodes, 1; Creutzfeldt–Jakob ...

The genetic mutation that causes Huntington's disease (HD)—a devastating brain disease that disrupts mobility and diminishes ...

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