Neuropsychiatric presentations of prion disease
作者:
Giovanna R. Mallucci,
John Collinge,
期刊:
Current Opinion in Psychiatry
(OVID Available online 1997)
卷期:
Volume 10,
issue 1
页码: 59-62
ISSN:0951-7367
年代: 1997
出版商: OVID
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
The past year has seen the emergence of a new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease reported in 10 young people. The probability that transmission of bovine spongiform encephalopathy from contaminated food to humans caused this phenomenon has produced great alarm and much debate. The identification of new mutations for and novel phenotypes of inherited prion disease continues to alert us to the increasing significance of these diseases as causes of neuropsychiatric morbidity.
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