Financial & competing interests disclosure
This contribution was supported by the following grants from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF): Kompetenznetz Demenzen (01 GI 0420), HBPP-NGFN2 (01 GR 0447), the Forschungsnetz der Früh- und Differenzialdiagnose der Creutzfeldt-Jakob-Krankheit und der neuen Variante der CJK (01 GI 0301), the EU grants cNEUPRO (contract no. LSHM-CT-2007–037950) and neuroTAS (contract no. LSHB-CT-2006- 037953). The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.
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