title: [The psychiatric forms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease].
abstract: METHODS
  Frequent in the new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, psychiatric disorders are less common in the sporadic form. The disorders are non-specific: mood disorders, personality changes and psychotic symptoms.
  
  
  METHODS
  The diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is evoked on the emergence of the first neurological signs, notably ataxia and myoclonia. The diagnosis is supported by the search for P 14-3-3, EEG in the cerebrospinal liquid as well as electroencephalogram and magnetic imaging that permit distinction between the sporadic and the new variant forms.
authors.affiliation: Service de psychiatrie, Centre hospitalier général, Orsay. alaindervaux@wanadoo.fr
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dervaux
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lainé
mesh_terms: D007562:Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000209:etiology*