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Question: Any information about fatal familial insomnia??Do you know what causes it? and also if a person have that, what makes them lose their ability to sleep? and also, I know sleep is needed to stay alive but what does sleep do? When we sleep, do we recharge our brains? What exactly do we recharge our brains with? chemicals? How come we cannot make the chemicals then we can go on not sleeping until we are 80 years old.
Answer: A rare, progressive neurological disease that is believed to be transmitted via an abnormal protein called a prionThere is no cure or treatment for FFI; hopes rest on the so far unsuccessful gene therapy. Sleeping pills have no effect.
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