THE human form of mad cow disease has claimed another victim from the village at the centre of a baffling cluster of CJD deaths. Christopher Reeve, 24, was the fourth casualty with links to Queni ...

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is an extremely rare and fatal brain-wasting disease that's like a human version of "mad cow." ...

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.

According to the latest diagnostic criteria released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2018, a definite diagnosis of CJD can only be determined through positive brain tissue ...

A study suggests that new variant CJD, the human version of the cattle brain disease BSE, peaked three years ago and is now in decline. However scientists say it is too early to come to any ...

The preliminary structure of the misfolded protein that causes mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease looks like a coiled mattress spring. Examining the brains of seven patients who died of the ...

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 ...

Prion diseases are rare, fatal neurodegenerative disorders with no cure and limited treatment options. Despite their devastating effects, much about their mechanisms, transmission, and progression ...

The discovery of ‘new variant’ Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) was announced in March 1996. By mid-1997, several lines of evidence linked vCJD with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the ...