Imagine suddenly losing the ability to sleep. No, not just the occasional night of insomnia here or there, or even the chronic sleep deprivation that most of us in modern society have come to tolerate ...

Here's something you never wanted to know: there is in fact a type of insomnia that can kill you. So what is fatal insomnia? Besides, of course, one of the most unsettling phrases in the English ...

Researchers have studied the origin of the mutation that causes Fatal Familiar Insomnia (FFI). In the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country there is a high rate of carriers of this mutation — ...

The disorder, which makes it hard to sleep through the night, is more commonly seen in people who have a deadly brain bleed. It means it’s a new risk factor along with smoking and high blood pressure ...

Well, this is terrifying: An unlucky few families throughout history have apparently been cursed with what’s known as “familial fatal insomnia” — that is, as science writer David Robson phrases it in ...

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Insomnia is a major contributor to deaths caused by motor vehicle crashes and other unintentional fatal injuries, a new study shows. The results underscore the importance of the 'Sleep Well, Be Well' ...

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 ...

"I just don't understand it. According to the history given by her friend, she hasn't slept in 8 days and there have been no behavioral indications that she has slept since being admitted. We'll need ...

The undiagnosed disease is connected to severe muscle pain and affects the heart, according to the user, who shared their story on Reddit Getty A 25-year-old Reddit user shared the worsening ...

Sonia Vallabh and her husband, Eric Minikel, walked into an examining room at Brigham and Women’s Hospital on an unusually warm December morning in 2011, two months of waiting down to final minutes.

"I just don't understand it. According to the history given by her friend, she hasn't slept in eight days and there have been no behavioral indications that she has slept since being admitted. We'll ...