What psychiatrists should know about sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease |
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Authors: | Power Brian Trivedi Darshan Samuel Mathew |
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Institution: | Centre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry, The University of Western Australia, Claremont, Western Australia, Australia. brian.power@health.wa.gov.au |
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Abstract: | OBJECTIVE: To provide psychiatrists with relevant, up to date information about sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. CONCLUSIONS: 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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