A 49-year-old man with neuropsychiatric symptoms followed by progressive cognitive decline [2]

Brain Pathology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 237-238

  Zanusso, Gianluigi ^a   Ferrari, Sergio ^a   Conte, Stefania ^b   Mellina, Vittorio ^c   Sacchi, Vittorio ^d   Rizzuto, Nicola ^a   Monaco, Salvatore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b Division of Neurology   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^d Division of Pathology   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; METHIONINE; PRION PROTEIN; VALINE;

ADULT; APATHY; BRAIN CORTEX ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CODON; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IRRITABILITY; LETTER; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION;

ADULT; BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PRPSC PROTEINS;

EID: 33746852937     PISSN: 10156305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-3639.2006.00014_2.x     Document Type: Letter

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