The etiology and pathogenesis of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease are elusive, the researchers noted. "The initial presentation typically includes dementia and neurological symptoms such as ...

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 ...

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.