Fatal Familial and Sporadic Insomnia

Neurodegeneration: The Molecular Pathology of Dementia and Movement Disorders: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 346-349

  Parchi, Piero ^a   Capellari, Sabina ^a   Gambetti, Pierluigi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dysautonomia and sleep disturbances; Fatal familial insomnia and sFI; Fatal insomnia (FI), transmissible prion disease; Neuropsychological evaluation; Plasma catecholamines; Sporadic fatal insomnia; Thalamic atrophy; Thalamic atrophy of FFI

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860911201     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444341256.ch34     Document Type: Chapter

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