The family that couldn't sleep
Subtitle: a medical mystery
By: D.T. Max.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Description: 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.