Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Japanese: クロイツフェルト=ヤコブ病 - クロイツフェルトヤコブびょう
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Brain disorder caused by prions. Creutzfeldt-Jacob's disease (CJD). Because the gray matter of the brain is damaged, personality disorder and dementia progress rapidly, and schizophrenic symptoms such as impaired consciousness, confusion due to psychomotor agitation, hallucinations, and delusions appear, as well as neurological symptoms such as motor paralysis and ataxia.
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Japanese:
プリオンによってひきおこされる脳障害。Creutzfeldt-Jacob's disease(CJD)。脳の灰白質が障害されるため,急速に人格障害と認知症(痴呆)が進み,意識障害,精神運動性興奮による錯乱,幻覚,幻想などの分裂様症状などが現れ,運動麻痺(まひ),運動失調などの神経症状を呈する。
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