D.T. Max writes the behind-the-scene history of prion disease
Most of us accept the party line that there are three basic forms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD): acquired, inherited, and sporadic. The general neurology and neuropathology textbooks do not acknowledge that the very existence of sporadic CJD is controversial. But D.T. Max (picture from nytimes.com), in his book The Family That Couldn’t Sleep: A Medical [...]