Daniel T. Max

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.

A Medical Mystery

The Family that Couldn't Sleep

Terrifying and fascinating history of prion diseases (mad cow, creutzfeld jakob, fatal familial insomnia, etc) that focuses not only on this Italian family who has suffered generation after generation from FFI but the research and people who have been a part of getting closer to figuring out these truly horrifying diseases. Great read and surprisingly riveting for being about proteins.

The Family that Couldn't Sleep A Medical Mystery

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