>This 35 year old man was referred by his general practitioner with a 3 month history of increasing forgetfulness. He would get lost on local journeys and could not manage his computer games any longer. Over the same period his personality had changed and he became extremely emotional at times. The symptoms were rapidly progressive and by the time of admission he was unable even to tie up his shoe laces. His brother and work colleagues also noticed that his gait had become odd and stiff with a tendency to drag his feet. There had been no preceding illness and no visual, sphincter, or sensory symptoms. His general health was good. There was no medical or family history of relevance to his presentation. He was not taking any regular medication.
>On neurological examination he was withdrawn, irritable, and tremulous. He walked with a slow and deliberate gait. Cranial nerves were unremarkable. He had brisk reflexes and strong withdrawal on eliciting the plantar responses. There was no ataxia and there were no involuntary movements. The most striking feature was marked psychomotor retardation. He showed very little insight and scored 21 out of 30 on mini mental state examination later dropping to 16 out of 30. He could only recall current events in a very sketchy fashion. Neuropsychological assessment confirmed impaired level of cognitive functioning in all areas.
>His condition remained largely unchanged until about 6 months after presentation when his gait became progressively unsteady and he withdrew more and more from spontaneous activities. There was little verbal communication and he now needed assistance in all activities of daily living. Two months later he was bed bound and mute with marked leg spasticity and needed feeding via gastrostomy. He continued to track visually rather than following noise but there was no communication. During the last month of life infrequent generalised myoclonic jerks were found. He eventually died 1 year after the onset of symptoms.
But wait it's only the tip of the iceberg.
>Alarmingly, after this case was published in several medical journals, similar cases sprang to light from Sweden, Norway, Brazil, and the United States. Fearing some sort of epidemic, a team assembled to determine common factors between the lives of the eight victims. Although few similarities could be determined, and none among racial, socioeconomic, or genetic lines of inquiry, one glaring factor stood out: all the men were frequent users of a controversial online message forum called "r9k".
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What? There's more?
Origini
>>29848294
Proof or it's just creepypasta.
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>>29848188
These are taken from case studies of Creutzfeldt-Jakob's Disease:
http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/68/3/375.full
OP must be a medicalfag of some sort.
>that prion disease that causes death visa insomnia
Horrifying shit.
