To Sleep No More. / D.T. Max.
by Max, D. T; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 7Health. Publisher: New York Times Magazine, 2001ISSN: 1522-323X;.Subject(s): Bovine spongiform encephalopathy | Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease | Fatal familial insomnia | Medicine -- Research | PrionsDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Sometime in their 50's, half the members of an aristocratic Italian family die of insomnia. In their search to understand their obscure gothic affliction, they inadvertently helped explain the cause of mad cow disease." (NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE) This article traces the history of fatal familial insomnia (FFI) in one family, examining the findings of a researcher who contends that prions, or "deviant proteins," cause both FFI and mad cow disease.
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2002.
Originally Published: To Sleep No More, May 6, 2001; pp. 74-78.
"Sometime in their 50's, half the members of an aristocratic Italian family die of insomnia. In their search to understand their obscure gothic affliction, they inadvertently helped explain the cause of mad cow disease." (NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE) This article traces the history of fatal familial insomnia (FFI) in one family, examining the findings of a researcher who contends that prions, or "deviant proteins," cause both FFI and mad cow disease.
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