| The prions that cause bovine spongiform encephalopathy and Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease aren't broken down by normal cooking temperatures. |
| Eating beef from cattle infected with mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, can cause a fatal brain disorder in humans. |
| Seven months later, the UK Central Veterinary Laboratory diagnosed bovine spongiform encephalopathy as the cause of its death. |
| All 10 patients had frontal-temporal theta wave activity, which indicated diffuse changes characteristic of metabolic encephalopathy. |
| Why Korsakoff's psychosis develops in only some patients with Wernicke's encephalopathy is unclear. |
| Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, eats holes in the brains of cattle. |
