title: [Mental disorders in a female patient with probable Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease].
abstract: The paper presents an overview of the current knowledge about the etiology, classification of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, abnormalities in the results of the EEG, MR and laboratory examinations in patients with this disease. The diagnostic value of the CSF examination for presence of protein 14-3-3 is underlined. The article is based on both Polish and foreign literature, describing mainly the diagnostics of CJD. The case of a female patient with dementia, mental disorders and neurological symptoms in the course of probable CJD, who was hospitalized at the Psychogeriatric Department of the Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Lublin is described.
authors.affiliation: Klinika Psychiatryczna, Akademia Medyczna, ul. Głuska 1, 20-309 Lublin. bozena.spila@am.lublin.pl
authors.forename: Marek
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gronkowski
authors.forename: Bozena
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Spila
authors.forename: Alina
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nowicka
authors.forename: Piotr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Machała
authors.forename: Grzegorz
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Przywara
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology; D007562:Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003704:Dementia / Q000175:diagnosis; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D020233:Gait Disorders, Neurologic / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans