title: What psychiatrists should know about sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To provide psychiatrists with relevant, up to date information about sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A 59-year-old bookkeeper presented with psychiatric symptoms in the context of stressors and past history of depression, for which her GP prescribed sertraline and olanzapine. Following a further deterioration in her mental state she was referred to acute psychiatric services, and there found to have dementia and myoclonus, and investigations supported a diagnosis of probable Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, sporadic type (sCJD). This paper serves to outline the emerging literature challenging the notion that suggests psychiatric symptoms are uncommon in the presentation of sCJD.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry, The University of Western Australia, Claremont, Western Australia, Australia. brian.power@health.wa.gov.au
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Power
authors.forename: Darshan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Trivedi
authors.forename: Mathew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Samuel
mesh_terms: D007562:Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests / Q000706:statistics & numerical data