Movement disorders reveal Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
Human prion diseases are sometimes difficult to diagnose because few clinical features distinguish them reliably from other neurological disorders. A new study suggests that analysis of movement disorders might contribute to the clinical differentiation of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease from Alzheimer disease and dementia with Lewy bodies.
Department of Neurology, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Michael
M
Weller
Adriano
A
Aguzzi
D007562:Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D009069:Movement Disorders / Q000209:etiology*