AD: Alzheimer disease; ADL: Activities of Daily Living; CBD Cortical basal degeneration; CBS: Corticobasal syndrome; CJD: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease; DWI: Diffusion-weighted image; EEG: Electroencephalograph, fCJD: familial Creutzfeld-Jakob disease; FFI: Fatal familial insomnia; FLAIR: Fluid-attenuated inversion recovery; MMSE: Mini-mental state examination; MoCA: Montreal Cognitive Assessment; MRI: Magnetic resonance imaging; PD: Parkinson disease; PrP: Prion protein; PSWC: Periodic sharp wave complexes; SWI: Susceptibility-weighted imaging. This evidence concerns the gene PRNP and fatal familial insomnia.