Context: Fatal familial insomnia (FFI) is a genetically transmitted neurodegenerative prion disease that incurs great suffering and has neither a treatment nor a cure. The clinical literature is ...

Medically reviewed by Brian H. Wetchler, DO Fatal familial insomnia is a hereditary sleep disorder that currently affects ...

Thus, many symptoms of FFI abated with the stimulants; however, the long-term effects of these medications in conjunction with his ongoing disease resulted in extensive kidney damage and may have ...

He had spent most of life battling Fatal Familial Insomnia (FFI), which is a rare and incurable brain disease. Mr Webb leaves ...

The main symptom of FFI, as the disease is often called, is the inability to sleep. First the ability to nap disappears, then the ability to get a full night’s sleep, until the patient cannot ...

A Brisbane father has died after being diagnosed with an extremely rare and incurable disease that he dubbed the family ...

A Brisbane father has died a month after being diagnosed with an ultra-rare genetic condition that he dubbed the family ‘curse’.

Genetic: These forms of prion disease are caused by mutations in the PRNP gene, which is responsible for producing the prion protein. Inherited from parents, genetic forms can include genetic CJD, GSS ...