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Sporadic fatal insomnia with clinical, laboratory, and genetic findings.

Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia - 1 Aug 2012

Luo Jin Jun, Truant Allan L, Kong Qingzhong, Zou Wen-Quan

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A 75-year-old man presented with a three-year history of progressively worsening insomnia and dementia. His mother and older sister had similar disorders. On initial examination, he was awake, apathetic, and disoriented but had no focal neurological deficits. Electroencephalography showed diffuse background slowing with neither periodic discharge nor sleeping activity. A single-photon emission CT scan showed...

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PMID: 22717776
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2011.11.023

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