@drbenmiles: The True Story of the Family That Forgot How to Sleep In the 1980s, one Italian family began losing the ability to sleep - not from insomnia, but from a rare and fatal genetic mutation - Fatal Familial Insomnia. #sciencetok #fyp #medicine #siwtd #scientificallyinterestingwaystodie

tinny :

that’s not a prion

ghostlychaos :

Hay so for people with anxiety this is EXTREMELY RARE

SCHWARZKOPF :

couldnt they give him anesthesia so he could technically "sleep"?

ΛKI :

“Only 70 families—“ ONLY 💔

Coffee Cartoons :

So this could just happen to any of us? Great, great. I live in crippling fear of this

Haileena ˚⋆* 🔭🐈‍⬛ :

I haven’t thought about prions in while. Thank you for reminding me again💀

Gijs :

I bet I could still sleep

gsdtxz :

why would protein do that, they arent alive

Tariq A. Al-Assar :

Diet-related, akin to CJD?

🇮🇱 = 💩 :

Prions are only found in nerve tissue meaning only an instrument that came into contact with contaminated nerve tissue has prions on it and those kinds of instruments are single use btw

ssiii :

prions aren't an infection, everyone has prions, it's the mutated prions that cause issues

iwatchtiktoklol :

My old phone cord would get tangled like that too, it was also terrible.

私はフェムボーイが大好きです :

for anxious people it is EXTREMELY RARE but never 0 :)

Nikola :

Ngl id just take a couple melatonin pills

David :

they couldn't give him medication to sleep?

Izzy :

Fatal familiar Insomnia… sounds familiar….

the man who sold the world :

alexis :

isnt that the same condition with the guy in indonesia/malaysia who made youtube videos about it?

Dr Ben Miles :

Giving new meaning to 'dead tired'

Elizabeth Mae💝 :

didn't that Indonesian guy have that too? rest in peace to him

Vittman Vittman :

Prions are proteins that are naturally present in our biology. They don't really "infect" us per se. That's almost like saying that cancer cells infect us. Cancer cells are simply cells that have gone rogue. They do not obey apoptosis or self-regulation like normal cells and grow incontrollably as a result. In the case of Fatal Familial Insomnia, what happens is that the prions' normal protein-folding process becomes corrupted and goes awry. Therein begins the problem...

Moldhoof :

coffie can be good for sleep for a few ppl

user880372891 :

hey when i was 3-4 i dont know how to sleep as well, sound unbelievable but i stay awake for 1-2 weeks remembering everything, from the list of broadcast on each television channel (i usually pinpoint mostly cartoon) the cartoon stopped at 6pm, my mom going back from work at 9pm, to the last football broadcast at 4am before another cartoon aired. but i dont feel exhausted or sleepy, just boredom

mood :

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