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 ...

and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). The patient history was in itself suggestive of the prion disease CJD. Cerebrospinal fluid findings (elevated neuron-specific enolase, tau protein and protein ...

Scientists say more cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) are still to emerge more than three decades after the "mad cow disease" scandal. Richard Knight, a senior neurologist based in ...