Billings Gazette6d
Chronic wasting disease pathogen mapped by Hamilton scientists could help create vaccine
The Hamilton scientists were able to map a CWD prion, the misfolded protein that causes the deadly brain disease, to the near ...
Healthline3d
Understanding the Different Types of Dementia
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 ...
Billings Gazette15d
Chronic wasting disease pathogen mapped by Hamilton scientists could help create vaccine
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 ...
Medscape13d
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 ... is reported as normal, a specialist MRI review ...
WebMD26d
Does Human Growth Hormone Affect Alzheimer's Risk?
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 ...
casereports.bmj10d
Refractory status epilepticus seen in the early phase of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
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 ...
BMJ26d
Magnetic resonance imaging in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: evidence of focal involvement of the cortex
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 ...
BMJ15d
Expanding the prion paradigm . . . and other stories
People with evidence of mucosal damage—erosions, oesophagitis, or ulcers—were almost twice as likely to develop Parkinson’s disease over 15 years of follow-up as those without mucosal damage. Scrapie ...
Northern Virginia Daily29d
Chronic wasting disease remains prevalent in deer population
CWD — a neurological disease carried by deer, elk and moose — is fatal for the infected animals. It’s caused by infectious proteins called prions that multiply and cause the animal’s brain to ... and ...
Winchester Star29d
Chronic wasting disease remains prevalent in local deer population
It’s caused by infectious proteins called prions that multiply and cause the animal’s brain ... Disease Control. Related to bovine spongiform-encephalopathy (mad cow disease) and Creutzfeldt ...
BMJ17d
Ganglioside complexes containing GQ1b as targets in Miller Fisher and Guillain–Barré syndromes
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 ...