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The family that couldn't sleep : a medical mystery

Author

D T Max

Call Number

  • 616.83 M463 (CEN)

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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.

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