Prion diseases are a group of different conditions that affect your brain and nervous system. They can cause severe dementia or problems with body control that get worse very quickly. They're rare -- ...

Prion diseases, such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), are fast-moving, fatal dementia syndromes associated with the formation of aggregates of the prion protein, PrP. How these aggregates form ...

Prion diseases such as variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and scrapie have prolonged incubation periods due to unknown molecular mechanisms. Polymorphisms in the prion protein gene are known to affect ...

Prion diseases are rare and occur due to proteins in the brain that “misfold.” Another name for prion disease is transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs). There are many types of prion ...

If you watched Kim Kardashian's latest health update and felt a jolt at the phrase "holes on the brain," you were not alone. It is a term that sounds catastrophic. Yet on the type of scan she had, a ...

August 24, 2010 — A novel sporadic prion protein disease, variably protease-sensitive prionopathy (VPSPr), with distinct features has been described as the first new prion disease since sporadic ...

In a new study, researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have identified the structure of protein fibrils linked to a hereditary form of human prion disease. This insight, ...

Two recent cases of prion disease in the U.S. may have been caused by contaminated deer meat, though the connection is still unproven. Reading time 3 minutes A new study might point to the first signs ...

May aid in the diagnosis of prion disease. RT-QuIC identifies the disease-causing agent. Total TAU and 14-3-3γ are indirect markers of neurodegenerative diseases. Assumes that the patient has a ...

In a new study, researchers have identified the structure of protein fibrils linked to a hereditary form of human prion disease. This insight, they say, reveals the mechanism for how prions can jump ...