The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery by D.T. Max

The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery

D.T. Max

299 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
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For two hundred years a noble Venetian family has suffered from an inherited disease that strikes their members in middle age, stealing their sleep, eating holes in their brains, and ending their lives in a matter of months. In Papua New Guinea, a...

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