People who died with sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease were more likely to have been prescribed antidepressants before neurologic symptoms started, a retrospective study in Austria showed. Compared ...

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare form of degenerative brain disorder that leads to a rapid decrease of mental function and movement. CJD occurs, approximately, in 1 out of 1 million people.

Accounting for 85 percent of cases, sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a type of dementia that typically first appears between the ages of 60 to 65. Yet, according to the national health service, ...

We may have been overestimating the role of a pathological class of misfolded protein in neurodegenerative disease. Called ...

The Canadian province of New Brunswick is grappling with a cluster of patients suffering from a mysterious neurologic disease that to date has afflicted more than three dozen of its residents.

Olfactory cortexes and the olfactory tracts are involved in sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. We examined peripheral regions of the olfactory sensory pathway, including the olfactory mucosa, to ...

Five patients who underwent surgery at a Cape Cod Hospital this summer may have been exposed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease after their surgeries were performed using the same potentially contaminated ...

Health officials have confirmed that a patient who underwent neurosurgery at a New Hampshire hospital earlier this year had Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease. The death, and suspicions that the patient may ...

Eight neurosurgery patients at Catholic Medical Center may have been exposed to a deadly, dementia-causing disease, health officials said Wednesday.Click here to view News 9’s reportThe Department of ...

This story was originally published Oct. 27, 2002. This is part two of five of the Deadly Game: Chronic Wasting Disease series. At 2 a.m. on Aug. 10, a hearse carrying the hollowed, 50-pound body of ...

A new report says a Rochester, NY., hunter may have developed an ultra-rare brain infection after eating the brains of squirrels he killed, according LiveScience. The report was presented at the ID ...