Context: Fatal familial insomnia (FFI) is a genetically transmitted neurodegenerative prion disease that incurs great suffering and has neither a treatment nor a cure. The clinical literature is ...

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 ...

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Watson tackles involves the rare and fatal disease known as Fatal Familial Insomnia (FFI). Disclaimer: This article contains spoilers from the show. In the story, Watson is asked to help Erika ...

Introduction: Human prion disease (PrD), a group of fatal and transmissible neurodegenerative diseases, consists of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD), kuru, fatal familial insomnia (FFI), ...

The brother of former Channel Nine reporter Hayley Webb has died from a rare brain disease. Lachlan Webb, who is the younger brother of the ex-television presenter, passed away on Thursday aged 36.

You’re tired but can’t sleep and wonder, Why can’t I sleep? It could be insomnia. In the moment, it’s easy to feel like you’re the only one struggling to get some shut-eye. However ...

claiming she has inherited a rare and fatal disease known as fatal familial insomnia (FFI). Along with his team of doctors, he investigates her medical history. They quickly discover that Erica ...

In this case, a pregnant woman who thinks she has Fatal Familial Insomnia, and hasn’t slept for days. She wants to make sure she’s alive long enough to give birth. But Watson isn’t so sure ...

She tells him that fatal familial insomnia runs in her family, and that while she fears she’s going to die, “I don’t want this baby to die, too.” She tearfully asks him to keep her alive ...