This article describes the various strategies that were attempted by an FFI patient to live with his symptoms. Because these approaches were arbitrarily selected, and often combined, altered ...

Related: Not all insomnia is the same — in fact, there may be 5 types Symptoms: The hallmark symptom of FFI is insomnia, or the inability to fall or stay asleep, which progressively worsens over ...

A family were unfortunate enough to inherit an incurable sleeping disease that took the lives of dozens over multiple ...

One of the central cases that Dr. 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 ...

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 ...

The genetic history of sisters Carolyn Schear (at right) and Cheryl Dinges puts them at risk for fatal familial insomnia, a deadly inability to sleep. Schear learned she doesn’t carry the gene.

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 ...