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(A) Sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD). Axial fluid attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) magnetic resonance (MR) image at level of basal ganglia in a patient with pathologically confirmed sporadic CJD showing symmetrical hyperintensity of the caudate head and anterior putamen (arrows). (B) New variant CJD. Axial FLAIR MR image at the level of the basal ganglia in a patient with pathologically confirmed variant CJD demonstrating bilateral hyperintensity of the pulvinar nucleus of the thalamus (arrows). (Courtesy of Professor I Bone, Department of Neurology, Southern General Hospital, asgow and Professor J W Ironside, Department of Neuropathology, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh.)