Fernando Valenzuela’s cause of death has been determined after the Dodgers legend died last month at the age of 63. According ...

What exactly is zombie deer disease? Find out how chronic wasting disease spreads and if it poses a threat to humans.

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

New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt wants the Public Health Agency of Canada to help investigate a mysterious brain illness that ...

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD ... leading to bleeding in the lower sections of the brain. Wernicke disease can cause physical symptoms like double vision and a loss of muscle coordination.

In a major discovery, scientists have presented the first evidence of Alzheimer's disease transmission in living individuals.

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 ...

One of the most common symptoms is gradually losing the use of one limb, known as limb apraxia. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is caused by a protein called prion. The presence of too much prion in the ...