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Fatal insomnia is an extremely rare neurodegenerative prion disease that results in trouble sleeping as its hallmark symptom. [2] . The majority of cases are familial (fatal familial insomnia [FFI]), stemming from a mutation in the PRNP gene, with the remainder of cases occurring sporadically (sporadic fatal insomnia [sFI]).
15 lip 2016 · In the 1970s, sleep researchers began to study SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome), a pathology which often takes place during sleep in infants, mainly between 2 and 6 months of age, a time of important sleep modifications.
The story of narcolepsy is an example of the major advances that Sleep Medicine has made in the last 50 years. It clearly indicates how scientific progress in the neurobiology of sleep has resulted in novel understanding of a strange and disabling disease known clinically for over a century.
1 kwi 2011 · The history of sleep medicine begins in the distant human past, in multiple civilizations. The knowledge of the science of sleep in ancient days is limited, partially due to the limited surviving writings and partially to our ability to decipher them.
The history of sleep affords important new perspectives not only on everyday life in earlier centuries but also on the underlying origins of contemporary sleep disorders, including middle-of-the-night insomnia.
1 sty 2022 · Galen (CE 129–210), a Greek physician and philosopher, followed Hippocrates’ thinking and considered sleep as one of six “unnatural” factors, external to the human body, that must be used in moderation, as too little or too much could cause imbalance in the body and lead to disease (Berryman, 2012).
The launching of the world's first sleep disorders clinic in 1970 at Stanford University is described in this article as a harbinger of how sleep medicine subsequently evolved throughout the world.
