The Family That Couldn't Sleep: Unravelling a Venetian Medical Mystery
A Medicine, Health, Science book. Protein, so far as we know, does not replicate itself all by itself, not on this planet anyway. Looked at...
The first symptoms begin after just a few nights without sleep, with shaking, sweating and overwhelming anxiety. Several weeks on, the insomniac is unsteady on his feet, wracked by fevers, and drifting in and out of delirium as the body's vital organs begin to fail. Finally, after months of agonising open-eyed deterioration, the victim falls into a state of exhaustion resembling a coma and mercifully dies.Chronic sleeplessness, or Fatal Familial Insomnia, is a rare, inherited affliction that has tormented one noble Venetian family since the eighteenth century, striking at random and only after the child rearing years are over, so that the deadly legacy is passed on like a dynastic curse. The cause of this sickness eluded the experts until the 1990's when it was identified as a...
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- Pages: 299 pages
- ISBN: 9781846270895 / 1846270898
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Protein, so far as we know, does not replicate itself all by itself, not on this planet anyway. Looked at this way, the [prion] seems the strangest thing in all biology, and, until someone in some laboratory figures out what it is, a candidate for Modern Wonder. (quote originally by Lewis Thomas) D.T. Max, The Family That Couldn't Sleep //
This stunning book is about a very rare inherited neurological disease which strikes in middle age and one of whose main symptoms is the inability to sleep which quite quickly leads to death. The book is written in a very readable way and follows one family, the main family who suffer frm this terrible disease. Wow.Ya haba estudiado los priones antes y por supuesto el Insomnio Familiar Fatal es algo que se estudia siempre en Psicofisiologa cuando se tratan temas de sueo. Me habra gustado tener este libro entonces, porque de forma sencilla describe lo bsico que hay que saber sobre el tema. Habla de lo que son los priones, las historia de su... This account of prion-based spongiform encephelopathic diseases covers a lot of ground: the Italian family of the title suffering from FFI (fatal familial insomnia), the mysterious epidemic of kuru among the Fore tribe of New Guinea, eventually linked to the practice of eating their dead ancestors' brains, the rare genetically transmitted...
