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Fatal Familial Insomnia

Known as: insomnia fatal familial, Fatals, Insomnia Familial, Insomnias, Fatal Familial 
A very rare autosomal dominant inherited sleep disorder caused by a mutation in the gene responsible for the prion protein. It affects individuals… 
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Oxidative Modifications and Down-regulation of Ubiquitin Carboxyl-terminal Hydrolase L1 Associated with Idiopathic Parkinson's and Alzheimer's Diseases*
Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) are the two most common neurodegenerative diseases that occur either in… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Lentiviral vector delivery of parkin prevents dopaminergic degeneration in an alpha-synuclein rat model of Parkinson's disease.
Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by a progressive loss of midbrain dopamine neurons and the presence of cytoplasmic… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Case-control study of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and maternal smoking, alcohol use, and drug use during pregnancy.
OBJECTIVE To address the putative association between attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and prenatal exposure to… 
Review
2001
Review
2001
Vascular adrenoceptors: an update.
The total and regional peripheral resistance and capacitance of the vascular system is regulated by the sympathetic nervous… 
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Contraceptive Use, Intention to Use and Unmet Need during the Extended Postpartum Period
Background While the literature on both unmet need and the general postpartum period is extensive, rather little has been written… 
Review
2001
Review
2001
Gerstmann–Sträussler–Scheinker syndrome,fatal familial insomnia, and kuru: a review ofthese less common human transmissiblespongiform encephalopathies
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome (GSS), fatal familial insomnia (FFI) and kuru constitute… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Comparison of active treatment and placebo in older Chinese patients with isolated systolic hypertension
Background Isolated systolic hyprtension occurs in around 8% of Chinese people aged 60 years or older. In 1988, the Systolic… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Fatal familial insomnia and familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: different prion proteins determined by a DNA polymorphism.
Fatal familial insomnia and a subtype of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, two clinically and pathologically distinct diseases, are… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
A gene for familial hemiplegic migraine maps to chromosome 19
Familial hemiplegic migraine is an autosomal dominant disorder of unknown pathogenesis in which the migrainous attacks are marked… 
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Chronotherapy: resetting the circadian clocks of patients with delayed sleep phase insomnia.
We report here the development of a brief drug-free rescheduling treatment ("chronotherapy") for Delayed Sleep Phase (DSP… 
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