Clinical features of sporadic fatal insomnia

Reviews in Neurological Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Barash, Jed A ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

MM2 thalamic Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; Prion diseases; Sporadic fatal insomnia

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ATAXIA; CASE STUDY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CODON; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DYSARTHRIA; DYSAUTONOMIA; DYSPHAGIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FATAL FAMILIAL INSOMNIA; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MALE; MEDLINE; MYOCLONUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPORADIC CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; THALAMUS; VISUAL DISORDER; BRAIN DISEASE; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SCINTISCANNING;

ADULT; AGED; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INSOMNIA, FATAL FAMILIAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PRPSC PROTEINS; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; THALAMIC DISEASES; THALAMUS;

EID: 77649261608     PISSN: 15452913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3909/rind0231     Document Type: Review

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