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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Random House Trade Paperbacks,
2007.
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The family that couldn't sleep : |b a medical mystery / |c D.T. Max. |
| 250 | |a Random House Trade Paperback ed. | ||
| 260 | |a New York : |b Random House Trade Paperbacks, |c 2007. | ||
| 300 | |a xxxi, 299 p. ; |c 21 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-285) and index. | ||
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Alone in the night: Doctors' dilemma, Venice, 1765; Merino mania, England, 1772; Pietro, the Veneto, 1943 -- Pushing back the dark: Strong magic, Papua New Guinea, 1947; Docta America, Papua New Guinea, 1957; Monkey business, Bethesda, Maryland, 1965; Boh!, the Veneto, 1973; Wonderful problem for a chemist, San Francisco, late 1970s to early 1980s; Convergence, the Veneto, 1983 -- Nature pushes back: Apocalypse cow, Britain, 1986; Oinkies, Britain, 1996; World according to prions, United States/Britain, 1970s to present day; Did man eat man?, Worldwide, 8000,000 B.C.E.; Coming to America?, United States, present day -- Awakenings: For the victims of fatal familial insomnia, the Veneto, present day -- Afterword: Note on the author. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Prion diseases. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Fatal familial insomnia. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Prions. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Sleep disorders. | |
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