What psychiatrists should know about sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Australasian Psychiatry : Bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
Brian PowerMathew Samuel

Abstract

To provide psychiatrists with relevant, up to date information about sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. A 59-year-old bookkeeper presented with psychiatric symptoms in the context of stressors and past history of depression, for which her GP prescribed sertraline and olanzapine. Following a further deterioration in her mental state she was referred to acute psychiatric services, and there found to have dementia and myoclonus, and investigations supported a diagnosis of probable Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, sporadic type (sCJD). This paper serves to outline the emerging literature challenging the notion that suggests psychiatric symptoms are uncommon in the presentation of sCJD.

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Jul 25, 2018·Zhurnal nevrologii i psikhiatrii imeni S.S. Korsakova·N N ZavadenkoE N Saverskaya
Apr 22, 2020·The International Journal of Neuroscience·Grammatiki KatsikakiSevasti Bostantjopoulou
May 30, 2017·Case Reports in Psychiatry·Nikhil Yegya-RamanOnyi Nwobi

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