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DEMENTIA
SYMPTOMS OF CJD
- Muscular coordination problems
- Personality changes
- Insomnia
- Depression
- Myoclonus (involuntary muscle jerks)
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) is a prion disease.
CJD is not Mad Cow Disease; it is a variant of it.
CJD mimics other dementias, such as Alzheimer's Disease and Vascular Dementia, BUT CJD progresses rapidly.
"CJD Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease - Mayo Clinic"
In CJD, prion proteins beging folding into three-dimensional shapes, which triggers the prion proteins in the brain to follow suit. The folding of the prions into three-dimensional shapes causes brain cells to be destroyed.
"Prions-What are they?"
CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE
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