fatal familial insomnia

Fatal familial insomnia is a rare inherited prion disease that is characterized by disturbed sleep patterns, mental deterioration, loss of coordination, and death.

disease, Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease, fatal familial insomnia, and kuru. Prion diseases affecting animals include scrapie, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (commonly called mad cow disease), and chronic wasting disease of mule deer and elk. For decades physicians thought that these diseases resulted