The Family that Couldn't Sleep

The Family that Couldn't Sleep

By
Daniel T. Max
Daniel T. Max
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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mafo

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

January 13, 2014
mbrodd
Mary Brodd

Horrifying. Interesting introduction to prion disease.

January 1, 2008
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Lisa

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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