The Family that Couldn't Sleep
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Average rating3.8
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Ratings8
Average rating3.8
Explores prions, enigmatic brain proteins, and their influence on human life, examining the case of an Italian family victimized for two centuries by a fatal familial insomnia, and the links between prions and various brain maladies.
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This was fascinating. Less a case study of one familial disease and more an overview of Prion diseases in general.
