Opens in a new tab or window Share on LinkedIn. Opens in a new tab or window People who died with sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease were more likely to have been prescribed antidepressants before ...

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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 ...

"There have been several studies in which there has been iatrogenic transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease by exposure to brain tissue," he observed. Between 1959 and 1985, cadaver-derived ...

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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.