Talk:Alpers' disease

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[edit] Rename as "Alpers Syndrome?"

It seems "Alpers' Syndrome" is used slightly more than "Alpers' Disease" in journal results from scholar.google.com, 312 to 270. The dates suggest that "syndrome" seems to be used more in recent times, and disease in older articles, though Disease is still used. As a non-expert, my guess is that it's now considered a syndrome, having multiple symptoms grouped under one name. Also, I'm not sure how to get a precise count from scholar.google.com, but a casual browsing suggests that with Syndrome, the apostrophe is used relatively rarely, whereas with disease, the apostrophe seemed more common. I did add redirects from Alpers syndrome and Alpers' syndrome to this article, and mention the syndrome and two other synonymous terms in the opening sentence. -Agyle 04:48, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Non-copyrighted but plagiarism

Some (much?) text in this article seems copied from this ninds.nih.gov page. Being a US government website, it's in the public domain and can legally be copied, but Wikipedia's policy is to attribute such copying. (See Wikipedia:Plagiarism#Plagiarism_that_doesn.27t_infringe_copyright.) I'm not sure how to attribute large tracts, other than putting them in quotes, but they've been slightly modified, so I'm just noting this and hoping someone else will address the issue. -Agyle 04:48, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Further info to add: prions

There's some recent research indicating subviral agents known as prions are a or the cause of the disease. Someone interested in this topic might want to find reliable sources and add information on it. -Agyle 04:48, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Naming of the Disease

I reworked this section as it referred to Alpers' original publication on the disease, not Blackwell's reference to Alpers' for the name of the disease. Riis303 (talk) 01:46, 22 February 2008 (UTC)