Three cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease with prion protein gene codon180 mutation presenting with pathological laughing and crying

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 319, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 47-50

  Iwasaki, Yasushi ^a  

^a AICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Codon180; Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; Pathological laughing and crying; Startle reaction; Widespread cerebral cortical imvolvement

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

AGED; AKINETIC MUTISM; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN CORTEX; CASE REPORT; CODON; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MALE; MYOCLONUS; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGICAL CRYING; PATHOLOGICAL LAUGHTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STARTLE REFLEX;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; CRYING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAUGHTER; MALE; PRIONS; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 84862753584     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: 18785883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2012.05.023     Document Type: Article

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