Category: Neurology And Neurosurgery
A new way of diagnosing prion disease may also help in other diseases, Elizabeth Tracey reports
What is a prion and how does it cause disease? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Prion diseases are caused in people when an aberrant form of a protein that is already in our bodies infects us, and causes the normal protein to fold like it, resulting in neurological disease. A new study found that one …
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Why is it that a disorder that affects the brain can be diagnosed with a skin biopsy? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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The rare brain disorder abbreviated CJD, for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, can be diagnosed with two or more skin biopsies, a recent study shows. Johns Hopkins neurologist Ted Dawson says the fact that what causes the disease, a particle smaller than a virus …
Making the diagnosis for a rare brain disease may now be easier, Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Skin biopsies have proven better at diagnosing the rare brain disease Creutzfeldt-Jakob, abbreviated CJD, than doing a spinal tap to obtain cerebrospinal fluid, a new study reports. Ted Dawson, a neurologist at Johns Hopkins, says this new test has multiple advantages. …
Diagnosing some neurologic diseases may now use a skin biopsy, Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease or CJD is a rare neurological condition that may initially look like dementia and that is ultimately fatal. It’s caused by something called a prion, which is smaller than a virus. Now a new study demonstrates that a skin …
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What kinds of music help people with conditions like Parkinson’s best? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Individually prescribed music may become part of your treatment if you have a disorder like Parkinson’s disease or a host of other conditions. The therapy is underway at the Johns Hopkins Center for Music and Medicine, directed by neurologist Alex …