Brain Rules: 12 Principles For Surviving And Thriving At Work, Home, And School - Plot & Excerpts
They become suddenly—and permanently—incapable of ever going to sleep again. Fatal Familial Insomnia is one of the rarest human genetic disorders that exists, affecting only about 20 families worldwide. That rarity is a blessing, because the disease follows a course straight through mental-health hell. In middle to late adulthood, the person begins to experience fevers, tremors, and profuse sweating. As the insomnia becomes permanent, these symptoms are accompanied by increasingly uncontrollable muscular jerks and tics. The person soon experiences crushing feelings of depression and anxiety. He or she becomes psychotic. Finally, mercifully, the patient slips into a coma and dies. So we know bad things happen when we don’t get any sleep. But, considering that sleep occupies a walloping one-third of our time on the planet, it is incredible to contemplate that we still don’t know why we need to sleep. Not that there haven’t been clues. One strong hint came about 10 years ago, from a group of researchers who left a bunch of wires stuck inside a rat’s brain.
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