Sleep is essential for our physical and mental well-being. And, yet, the Sleep Foundation estimates that 50 to 70 million ...

Met-Met patients demonstrate a different sleep pattern than Met-Val patients, including severe fragmentation, brief but repeated episodes of sudden-onset REM (with oneiric enactment), and an ...

To entreat compliance, DF stressed his fatal diagnosis and the interest of science. Although his good days were often punctuated with symptoms of his illness (such as fever, high blood pressure ...

And sometimes, not being able to sleep could kill you. That’s what happens in cases of fatal familial insomnia. FFI is a degenerative brain disorder that causes people to lose their ability to ...

Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have developed a gene-editing treatment for prion disease that extends ...

Imagine a genetic condition that not only steals your sleep but ultimately your life - that’s fatal familial insomnia (FFI) in a nutshell. This rare disease - also in the piron family - affects ...

A long-awaited strategy Vallabh and Minikel have been studying prion disease since 2012, after Vallabh's mother passed away from a form of the disease called fatal familial insomnia and Vallabh ...

Created with Sketch. Examples of rare sleep disorders include Kleine-Levin Syndrome (also known as Sleeping Beauty Syndrome), fatal familial insomnia, REM sleep behavior disorder, and idiopathic ...

The effects of sleep deprivation have been well studied. Sleep deprivation happens when you do not get enough sleep, or good quality sleep, to meet your body's needs. Not getting adequate sleep ...