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In recent years there have been many exciting developments in scanning techniques. It is now possible to have all sorts of brain scan and there have been great hopes that this new high-technology approach to studying diseases of the brain might lead to greater diagnostic accuracy. Some of these new techniques, for example the CT [...]

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is probably a collection of different clinical syndromes, or patterns of disease presentation, which have in common the same transmissible causal agent. That is, they may be caused by infection from one individual to another. The infection can even be transmitted by using on one patient neurosurgical instruments that have been earlier [...]