n :  a rare spongiform encephalopathy that is related to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, is marked by ataxia, dementia, and by accumulation of amyloid plaques in the brain, and that is inherited as an autosomal dominant trait but has been transmitted experimentally to animals - called also Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease , Gerstmann-Sträussler syndrome 
 
Sträussler, E., and Scheinker, I., Austrian physicians. Sträussler and Scheinker were coauthors of an article published in 1936 by Gerstmann that offered the first description of the form of encephalopathy that now bears the names of all three.
 
 
 
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