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Insomnia - Adult (Expert Forum)
are fatal familiar insomnia and fatal sporadic insomnia the same disease ?
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UMass Memorial Medical Center
Questions in the Sleep & Insomnia Forum are being answered by Dr. Gregg D. Jacobs.
are fatal familiar insomnia and fatal sporadic insomnia the same disease ?
by milos2390, Aug 10, 2009 02:07PM
Dr Jacobs, i have one more question for you( hope i am not boring).
Are fatal familiar insomnia and sporadic fatal insomnia the same disease or there are differences? just by accident they wrote an article about it today on one of our websites and they said that in sporadic fatal insomnia it doesn't have to be a mutated gene that will cause the disease but that it can also be caused by stress ! I think this is not true, if it is, then most of us insomniacs would be already dead or would develop this disease, but what do you think about it? Or just that condition has two names?
Thanks in advance for the info and for your care.Cheers
Are fatal familiar insomnia and sporadic fatal insomnia the same disease or there are differences? just by accident they wrote an article about it today on one of our websites and they said that in sporadic fatal insomnia it doesn't have to be a mutated gene that will cause the disease but that it can also be caused by stress ! I think this is not true, if it is, then most of us insomniacs would be already dead or would develop this disease, but what do you think about it? Or just that condition has two names?
Thanks in advance for the info and for your care.Cheers
Doctor's Answer
by Gregg D Jacobs, Ph.D., Aug 11, 2009 10:02AM
, Aug 11, 2009 10:02AM
