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Episode "Fatal Insomnia"

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  • A patient in a sleep study at National Institute of Health gets sensors placed on her head before she goes into the PET scan (positron emission tomography).
  • Carolyn Schear tucks her daughters into bed. Fatal Familial Insomnia runs in her family's genes.
  • Author of The Family Who Couldn't Sleep, Daniel Max works on his article for National Geographic Magazine about Fatal Familial Insomnia.
  • A sloth in Panama has his sleep sensors in place and is ready to go back into the trees for a nap.
  • A patient is being placed into the PET (positron emission tomography) scan, so multiple tests can be run on her while she sleeps at National Institute of Health.
  • An EEG (Electroencephalography) read-out of a patient who is asleep.

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    A patient in a sleep study at National Institute of Health gets sensors placed on her head before she goes into the PET scan (positron emission tomography).

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    Carolyn Schear tucks her daughters into bed. Fatal Familial Insomnia runs in her family's genes.

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    Author of The Family Who Couldn't Sleep, Daniel Max works on his article for National Geographic Magazine about Fatal Familial Insomnia.

  • Explorer Fatal Insomnia 06

    A sloth in Panama has his sleep sensors in place and is ready to go back into the trees for a nap.

  • Explorer Fatal Insomnia 05

    A patient is being placed into the PET (positron emission tomography) scan, so multiple tests can be run on her while she sleeps at National Institute of Health.

  • Explorer Fatal Insomnia 03

    An EEG (Electroencephalography) read-out of a patient who is asleep.

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