NY Times article on fatal familial insomnia

A compelling article on this subject is in this week’s magazine:

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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.)

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?