In humans, a very similar disease called Creutzfeldt-Jakob causes slow degeneration of the brain. It is believed that mad cow disease in humans is a new variant of that disease. How common is mad cow ...

"Although sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease remains an extremely rare cause of mood alterations, increased vigilance for neurodegenerative diseases in this setting could eventually help to extend ...

While they are not well understood, exposure to certain pathogens that then trigger the brain proteins to fold is believed to ...

CJD is rare but fatal. The UK NHS lists possible symptoms including loss of intellect and memory, changes in personality, ...

Background: Establishing a confident clinical diagnosis before an advanced stage of illness can be difficult in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) but unlike common causes of dementia, prion diseases ...

"There have been several studies in which there has been iatrogenic transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease by exposure to brain tissue," he observed. Between 1959 and 1985, cadaver-derived ...

SCIENTISTS have warned ‘zombie deer disease’, fatal to every animal it infects, has potential to spread to humans. Medically known as chronic wasting disease (CWD), the condition ...

If you're a caregiver for someone who's living with dementia, the society has material to help you with what to expect as the disease progresses, how to understand the symptoms, providing day-to-day ...

Some died from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a degenerative brain condition, because the hormone infusions they received contained infectious proteins called prions that cause severe ...