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The family that couldn't sleep a medical mystery

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Max, D. T. (Daniel T.)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007.
Edition:	Random House Trade Paperback ed.
Subjects:	Prion diseases. Fatal familial insomnia. Prions. Sleep disorders.
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Summary:	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.
Physical Description:	xxxi, 299 p. ; 21 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-285) and index.
ISBN:	9780812972528 (pbk.) 081297252X (pbk.)
Author Notes:	D. T. Max was born and raised in New York City and graduated from Harvard in 1984. He has been an editor at Washington Square Press, Houghton Mifflin, and The New York Observer . For the past eight years, he has reported mostly for The New York Times Magazine . His work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times , The Wall Street Journal , San Francisco Chronicle , and Chicago Tribune . He lives outside Washington, D.C., with his wife, their two young children, and a rescued beagle named Max.