Tag: prion disease

A case report describes a 71-year-old woman with sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease who received home-based neuropalliative care guided by validated assessment ...

A new Frontiers research collection examines how emerging and re-emerging diseases, from arboviruses to prions, are tracked through One Health ...

A new case report details how a 76-year-old man's sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease was initially misdiagnosed as ischemic stroke, with MRI ...

Two new Austrian autopsy cases of variably protease-sensitive prionopathy reveal how codon 129 genetics and overlapping proteinopathies complicate diagnosis of ...

Prion diseases are among the rarest and most uniformly fatal neurodegenerative disorders known to medicine. Conditions such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, ...

Genotyping nearly 64,000 SNPs in more than 1,700 white-tailed deer allowed researchers to trace individual animals to within about 30 ...

A new Mayo Clinic case series and systematic review shows that prion disease can convincingly mimic rapidly progressive Alzheimer disease, ...

A new review in Acta Neuropathologica chronicles how Byron Caughey's development of the RT-QuIC assay revolutionized prion detection and seeded ...