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GAMBETTI, Pierluigi

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1986 CE

#10843

Fatal familial insomnia and dysautonomia with selective degeneration of thalamic nuclei.

The authors coined the name Fatal Familial Insomnia to describe a family cohort of individuals who were dying from a prion illness causing an inability to sleep. This disease has been characterized as one of the most …