Currently the UCSF Memory and Aging Center is running two clinical research studies that enroll people with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. One aims to improve the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of rapidly progressive dementias – including CJD, while the other looks more broadly at several clinical syndromes that can lead to dementia.

The Memory and Aging Center clinical team collaborates closely with several research laboratories at UCSF to quickly convert laboratory discoveries about human prion disease into novel treatments.

For links to abstracts and full text articles, please visit PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.

• Prusiner Laboratory publications
• Geschwind publications
• Miller publications
• Publications about prions

Scientific and medical meetings provide a forum for new ideas in research or treatment to be presented to colleagues and discussed.

As much of our data is collected under the auspices of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, limited data from our CJD research may be available to other investigators.