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Movement disturbances in the differential diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society - 15 Feb 2009
Edler Jan, Mollenhauer Brit, Heinemann Uta, Varges Daniela, Werner Carola, Zerr Inga, Schulz-Schaeffer Walter J
Abstract excerpt
Movement disturbances are common in dementia disorders and are a central feature of the clinical classification criteria of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). Polymorphism at codon 129 of the prion protein gene is known to determine the clinical picture of CJD. The frequency and characteristics of movement disturbances in other dementing disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), is barely known and leads to...
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