Brian Power1, Darshan Trivedi, Mathew Samuel. 1. Centre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry, The University of Western Australia, Claremont, Western Australia, Australia. brian.power@health.wa.gov.au
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.
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.