People who died with sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease were more likely to have been prescribed antidepressants before neurologic symptoms started, a retrospective study in Austria showed.

CJD is rare but fatal. The UK NHS lists possible symptoms including loss of intellect and memory, changes in personality, ...

Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD), is described by the US ... Most people die within a year of the first symptoms, which include memory loss, impaired thinking, personality changes, and sudden ...

Whether they also had Alzheimer's symptoms wasn't known because Creutzfeldt-Jakob, a universally fatal prion disease that progresses rapidly, may have masked any symptoms. In the U.S., nearly ...

According to the Mayo Clinic, there are several common symptoms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. They include sudden jerky movements, memory loss, insomnia, blurry vision or blindness, personality ...

Explore a new study linking SSRI use to sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Mood changes suggest early neurodegeneration.

Some died from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a degenerative brain ... in the new study had developed CJD, but five showed symptoms consistent with early-onset Alzheimer's.

Background: Establishing a confident clinical diagnosis before an advanced stage of illness can be difficult in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) but unlike common causes of dementia, prion diseases ...