Book Traces Family Suffering from Deadly Insomnia
Author D.T. Max describes himself as a journalist and an essayist. Nancy Pastor hide caption
The Family that Couldn't Sleep traces the fascinating and horrific tale of an Italian family who suffers from a deadly genetic disease called fatal familial insomnia.
People who experience the disease become unable to sleep and can die within a few months. The disease can be traced back in the family more than two hundred years. Robert Siegel talks with the book's author, D.T. Max.
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