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rowrrbazzle
05-06-2001, 09:08 PM
A compelling article on this subject is in this week's magazine:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/06/magazine/06INSOMNIA.html

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The doctor studying this disease discovered that it is caused by prions, similar to mad cow disease.

I'm posting this because we've had a few threads about longest times without sleep and I thought people would be interested. (I thought Cecil or the staff had done an article about maximum times without sleep, but I couldn't find it in the archives.)

JillGat
05-06-2001, 10:14 PM
Cecil has written several columns about sleep. Here's one of them (mentioning a woman who claimed only to need one hour of sleep a night:Why do we sleep? (http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_044b.html)