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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
Common symptoms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease include progressive dementia, depression, personality changes, sleep disorders, and jerky movements (characteristic myoclonus).<ref name="Haywood-1997">{{Cite journal | last1 = Haywood | first1 = AM. | title = Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. | journal = N Engl J Med | volume = 337 | issue = 25 | pages = 1821-8 | month = Dec | year = 1997 | doi = 10.1056/NEJM199712183372508 | PMID = 9400041 }}</ref> | Common symptoms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease include uncontrolled sporadic laughter, progressive dementia, depression, personality changes, sleep disorders, and jerky movements (characteristic myoclonus).<ref name="Haywood-1997">{{Cite journal | last1 = Haywood | first1 = AM. | title = Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. | journal = N Engl J Med | volume = 337 | issue = 25 | pages = 1821-8 | month = Dec | year = 1997 | doi = 10.1056/NEJM199712183372508 | PMID = 9400041 }}</ref> | ||
==History and Symptoms== | ==History and Symptoms== | ||
Common symptoms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease include the following: | Common symptoms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease include the following: | ||
* Uncontrolled sporadic laughter | |||
*[[Myoclonus|Jerky movements (myoclonus)]] (characteristic feature) | *[[Myoclonus|Jerky movements (myoclonus)]] (characteristic feature) | ||
* [[Apathy]] | * [[Apathy]] | ||
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Overview
Common symptoms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease include uncontrolled sporadic laughter, progressive dementia, depression, personality changes, sleep disorders, and jerky movements (characteristic myoclonus).[1]
History and Symptoms
Common symptoms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease include the following:
- Uncontrolled sporadic laughter
- Jerky movements (myoclonus) (characteristic feature)
- Apathy
- Headache
- Depression
- Dementia
- Judgement difficulties[2]
- Memory loss
- Personality changes
- Hallucinations
- Seizures
- Insomnia or hypersomnia[3]
- Arthralgia
References
- ↑ Haywood, AM. (1997). "Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies". N Engl J Med. 337 (25): 1821–8. doi:10.1056/NEJM199712183372508. PMID 9400041. Unknown parameter
|month=ignored (help) - ↑ Rabinovici, GD.; Wang, PN.; Levin, J.; Cook, L.; Pravdin, M.; Davis, J.; DeArmond, SJ.; Barbaro, NM.; Martindale, J. (2006). "First symptom in sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease". Neurology. 66 (2): 286–7. doi:10.1212/01.wnl.0000196440.00297.67. PMID 16434680. Unknown parameter
|month=ignored (help) - ↑ Landolt, HP.; Glatzel, M.; Blättler, T.; Achermann, P.; Roth, C.; Mathis, J.; Weis, J.; Tobler, I.; Aguzzi, A. (2006). "Sleep-wake disturbances in sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease". Neurology. 66 (9): 1418–24. doi:10.1212/01.wnl.0000210445.16135.56. PMID 16682677. Unknown parameter
|month=ignored (help)