Book
The family that couldn't sleep : a medical mystery
Edition
1st ed.
Publication Information
New York : Random House, c2006.
Physical Description
xxxi, 299 p. ; 25 cm.
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.