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  2. Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease - Wikipedia

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    Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD), also known as subacute spongiform encephalopathy or neurocognitive disorder due to prion disease, is a fatal neurodegenerative disease. [ 4 ] [ 1 ] Early symptoms include memory problems, behavioral changes, poor coordination, and visual disturbances. [ 4 ]

  3. Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt - Wikipedia

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    Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt (June 2, 1885 – December 30, 1964) was a German neurologist and neuropathologist. [1] Although he is typically credited as the physician to first describe the Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, this has been disputed. [1] [2] [3] He was born in Harburg an der Elbe and died in Munich.

  4. Variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease - Wikipedia

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    Variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD), formerly known as New variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (nvCJD) and referred to colloquially as "mad cow disease" or "human mad cow disease" to distinguish it from its BSE counterpart, is a fatal type of brain disease within the transmissible spongiform encephalopathy family. [7]

  5. Creutzfeldt - Wikipedia

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    Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease - degenerative CNS disorder, named after the authors who first described it. Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Creutzfeldt .

  6. Kuru (disease) - Wikipedia

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    Electroencephalogram (EEG) is used to distinguish kuru from Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, a similar encephalopathy (any disease that affects the structure of the brain). [28] EEGs search for electrical activity in the person's brain and measure the frequency of each wave to determine if there is an issue with the brain's activity. [29]

  7. Jonathan Simms - Wikipedia

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    Jonathan Simms (1 June 1984 – 5 March 2011) was a man from Belfast, Northern Ireland, who contracted variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD) in his late teenage years. He was given a post-diagnosis life expectancy of one year, similar to that of other young people who were diagnosed in the same age bracket.

  8. Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy - Wikipedia

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    Prion disease: Micrograph showing spongiform degeneration (vacuoles that appear as holes in tissue sections) in the cerebral cortex of a patient who had died of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. H&E stain, scale bar = 30 microns (0.03 mm). Specialty: Infectious diseases Symptoms: Dementia, seizures, tremors, insomnia, psychosis, delirium, confusion ...

  9. List of eponymous diseases - Wikipedia

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    An eponymous disease is a disease, disorder, condition, or syndrome named after a person, usually the physician or other health care professional who first identified the disease; less commonly, a patient who had the disease; rarely, a literary character who exhibited signs of the disease or an actor or subject of an allusion, as characteristics associated with them were suggestive of symptoms ...