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Psychiatric Presentation of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

A Case Report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

M. S. Keshavan ,
W. A. Lishman  and
J. Trevor Hughes
M. S. Keshavan
Affiliation:
The Maudsley Hospital (now at the Lafayette Clinic, Detroit, USA)
W. A. Lishman
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry
J. Trevor Hughes
Affiliation:
Department of Neuropathology, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford
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Abstract

A patient with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is described. Many alternative psychiatric diagnoses were considered, and the true situation only became apparent late in the clinical course.

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Brief Reports
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 151 , Issue 2 , August 1987 , pp. 260 - 263
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1987 

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