Glossary for Fatal familial insomnia

• Alpers Syndrome: A rare syndrome characterized by liver disease, seizures and progressive, episodic psychomotor retardation.
• Bizarre medical conditions: Various unusual and unexpected medical disorders
• Brain conditions: Medical conditions that affect the brain
• Coma: Prolonged unconsciousness
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: A very rare degenerative brain disease that can be inherited, transmitted (eg in surgical transplants using infected tissue) or as a result of genetic mutations. The condition is fatal.
• Fever: Elevation of the body temperature above the normal 37 degrees celsius
• Genetic Disease: Any disease that is handed down to oneself through the chromosomes of ones parents
• Hallucinations: Incorrect perception of any of the senses.
• Insomnia: Insomnia is defined as repeated difficulty with the initiation, duration, maintenance, or quality of sleep that occurs despite adequate time and opportunity for sleep that results in some form of daytime impairment.
• Myoclonus: Sudden involuntary muscle twitching or movement.
• Prion diseases: Various diseases caused by abnormal proteins (prions) in the brain.
• Sleep disorders: Any disorder that affects ones sleep
• Sleep disturbance: Sleeping difficulty, called insomnia, can involve difficulty falling asleep when you first go to bed at night, waking up too early in the morning, and waking up often during the night.
• Stupor: Mental sub-responsiveness not as severe as coma

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