a case of sporadic creutzfeldtjakob disease that developed with psychiatric symptoms creutzfeldtjakob disease cjd is a fairly rare prion sickness characterized by rapidly progressive dementia and neuropsychiatric symptoms the diversity of clinical characteristics of the disease causes difficulties during diagnosis the first finding of the disease might be psychiatric symptoms the male patient who was diagnosed with cjd after dementia ataxia and myoclonus developed rapidly following psychiatric symptoms was presented in order to draw attention to the onset with psychiatric symptoms in cjd spectral properties and relative quantum yields of new fluorescent stains excitation and emission spectra were obtained for thirtytwo new fluorescent stains that resist fading when exposed to light quantum yields were determined for the fourteen stains that showed the greatest fluorescent intensity optimal microscopic excitatory and barrier filters determined by the experimental results were used to examine tissues stained with some of these dyes cellular detail was evident and there was no fading after several hours of examination