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Severe, Persistent and Fatal Delirium in Psychogeriatric Patients Admitted to a Psychiatric Hospital
Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra, 2015 Background/Aims: Although delirium is generally regarded as a transient syndrome, persistence of delirium in patients with cognitive impairment - even with fatal outcome - has been reported as well.
Ingrid S. Jans +3 more
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Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease prion infection of human cerebral organoids
Acta Neuropathologica Communications, 2019 For the transmissible, neurogenerative family of prion diseases, few human models of infection exist and none represent structured neuronal tissue. Human cerebral organoids are self-organizing, three-dimensional brain tissues that can be grown from ...
Bradley R. Groveman +6 more
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[Alien hand syndrome in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease].
Neurologia (Barcelona, Spain), 2001 Alien hand syndrome is defined by uncontrolable actions of the arm and hand that seem to have a purpose. It is usually associated with acute focal lesions after a stroke or surgery of the corpus callosum. It has been described in chronic dementiating diseases such as cortico-basal degeneration, Alzheimer's disease, orthochromatic leukodystrophy and ...
E, Colomer Rubio +6 more
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Neurobiology of Disease, 2014 Prion diseases are progressive disorders that affect the central nervous system leading to memory loss, personality changes, ataxia and neurodegeneration.
A. Murali, R.A. Maue, P.J. Dolph
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Rapidly Progressive Corticobasal Degeneration Syndrome
Case Reports in Neurology, 2011 Introduction: Corticobasal syndrome (CBS) has a heterogeneous clinical presentation with no specific pathologic substratum. Its accurate diagnosis is a challenge for neurologists; in order to establish CBS definitively, postmortem confirmation is ...
Ana Herrero Valverde +4 more
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Infectio, 2007 Se presenta el caso de una paciente de 65 años de edad con alucinaciones auditivas y visuales, rigidez en el hemicuerpo izquierdo que progresó al hemicuerpo derecho, con demostración por electroencefalograma de ondas trifásicas abundantes lentas ...
VILLAMIL WILMER +6 more
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Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease with unusual presentation of peripheral neuropathy and ophthalmoplegia
Avicenna Journal of Medicine, 2018 Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) is a well-described disease. It is characterized by rapidly progressive dementia, myoclonus, ataxia, pyramidal, and extrapyramidal signs.
Mais Arwani +3 more
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Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease-like syndrome induced by gabapentin toxicity
Ageing Research, 2010 Patients with Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) may exhibit characteristic abnormalities on the electroencephalogram (EEG). However, these abnormalities have been associated with a number of cases of drug toxicity. We report a case of CJD-like syndrome associated with gabapentin. A 78-year-old man was hospitalized for recurrent falls.
Vicky Chau +3 more
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Southwest Respiratory and Critical Care Chronicles, 2014 Myoclonus is a movement disorder characterized by involuntary, sudden, brief muscle jerks caused by muscular contraction (positive myoclonus) or inhibition (negative myoclonus).1,2 Myoclonus is generally a medical sign and not a diagnosis.
Pavis Laengvejkal +2 more
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Imaging and clinical characteristics of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Chinese Journal of Contemporary Neurology and Neurosurgery, 2013 Five patients with sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) presented rapidly progressive dementia which were subacute onset from 1 to 4 months. Among these cases, periodic synchronous discharge (PSD) of electroencephalography (EEG) was seen in 2 ...
Yan GAO +3 more
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