Dementia in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (A81.0+)

Other forms include Pick's disease, Creutzfeldt Jakob disease, Lewy body dementia, vascular dementia and primary progressive aphasia, among others.

The TSE diseases form a group of fatal and transmissible diseases which are characterised by a degeneration of the nervous tissues both in humans (kuru A disease that has developed notably among a tribe in New Guinea which regularly eats the brains of its dead., Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) Human disease affecting about one person in a million., Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker Hereditary dementia, monitored to date in about fifty families) and in animals (scrapie, mad cow disease).

5. In relation to the scientific aspects, the Council welcomes the initiatives taken by the Commission on two aspects: (a) asking the Group chaired by Prof. Charles Weissmann to examine the following three questions: - to review the present state of research in relation to BSE and Creutzfeld-Jakobs-Disease (CJD), - to recommend to the Commission the need for further research into these questions, - to specifically review the question of a possible link between BSE and CJD and to identify those research bodies and institutes relevant to carry out the necessary research (b) creating as soon as possible a multi-disciplinary scientific committee, combining expertise on human medicine, veterinary, public and animal health, toxicology and biology ...[+++], to give scientific advice to the Commission and make policy recommendations on matters of Community competence.