Fatal familial insomnia is a rare genetic disorder that affects sleep and other brain functions. There is no cure for the disease, but research is being done to find treatments. Fatal familial ...

A rare genetic disease prods scientists to explore the mysteries of sleep. April 26, 2010— -- Most people can relate to the occasional sleepless night, but for sufferers of a rare form of ...

This unwatchably moody and mannered film is ostensibly about fatal familial insomnia, an incredibly rare and, yes, fatal disease, but I would never have known that if the press notes hadn’t told me so ...

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