The Family that Couldn't Sleep

The Family that Couldn't Sleep

2006 • 299 pages

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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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Exactly what a great non-fiction book should read like.

January 13, 2014

Horrifying. Interesting introduction to prion disease.

January 1, 2008

This was fascinating. Less a case study of one familial disease and more an overview of Prion diseases in general.

June 3, 2019

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