The behavioural features of fatal familial insomnia: A new Italian case with pathological verification

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 581-585

  Raggi, Alberto ^a   Perani, Daniela ^b,c,d   Giaccone, Giorgio ^e   Iannaccone, Sandro ^a   Manconi, Mauro ^a   Zucconi, Marco ^a   Garibotto, Valentina ^c   Marcone, Alessandra ^a   Zamboni, Michele ^a   Limido, Lucia ^e   Tagliavini, Fabrizio ^e   Ferini Strambi, Luigi ^a,b   Cappa, Stefano F ^a,b,d  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^d National Institute of Neuroscience   (Italy)

^e DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agrypnia; Fatal familial insomnia; Mixed states of wakefulness and sleep; Sleep regulation; Status dissociatus; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FATAL FAMILIAL INSOMNIA; FEMALE; GLIOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NONREM SLEEP; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SLEEP PATTERN; WAKEFULNESS;

BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSOMNIA, FATAL FAMILIAL; ITALY; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 67349227127     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2008.05.007     Document Type: Article

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