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When villagers ate the brain, they contracted the disease and then spread it to other villagers who ate their infected brains. [ 5 ] While the Fore people stopped consuming human meat in the early 1960s, when it was first speculated to be transmitted via endocannibalism , the disease lingered due to kuru's long incubation period of anywhere ...
Neurolathyrism, is a neurological disease of humans, caused by eating certain legumes of the genus Lathyrus.This disease is mainly associated with the consumption of Lathyrus sativus (also known as grass pea, chickling pea, kesari dal, or almorta) and to a lesser degree with Lathyrus cicera, Lathyrus ochrus and Lathyrus clymenum [1] containing the toxin ODAP.
Research on eating disorders from the 16th to the 20th centuries suggests that during that time in history, pica was regarded more as a symptom of other disorders rather than its own specific disorder. Even today, what could be classified as pica behavior is a normative practice in some cultures as part of their beliefs, healing methods, or ...
A prion / ˈ p r iː ɒ n / ⓘ is a misfolded protein that induces misfolding in normal variants of the same protein, leading to cellular death.Prions are responsible for prion diseases, known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSEs), which are fatal and transmissible neurodegenerative diseases affecting both humans and animals.
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), also known as prion diseases, [1] are a group of progressive, incurable, and fatal conditions that are associated with the prion hypothesis and affect the brain and nervous system of many animals, including humans, cattle, and sheep.
Klüver–Bucy syndrome was first documented among certain humans who had experienced temporal lobectomy in 1955 by H. Terzian and G.D. Ore. [10] It was first noted in a human with meningoencephalitis in 1975 by Marlowe et al. [4] [6] Klüver–Bucy syndrome can manifest after either of these (lobectomies can be medically required by such ...
This is a list of major and frequently observed neurological disorders (e.g., Alzheimer's disease), symptoms (e.g., back pain), signs (e.g., aphasia) and syndromes (e.g., Aicardi syndrome). There is disagreement over the definitions and criteria used to delineate various disorders and whether some of these conditions should be classified as ...
Toxoplasmosis is usually spread by eating poorly cooked food that contains cysts, by exposure to infected cat feces, or from an infected woman to her baby during pregnancy. [3] Rarely, the disease may be spread by blood transfusion or other organ transplant. [3] It is not otherwise spread between people. [3]