[Familial insomnia with a malignant course: a new thalamic disease]

Rev Neurol (Paris). 1986;142(10):791-2.
[Article in French]

Abstract

A degenerative familial disease with insomnia and autonomic disorders in a 53 years old man is reported. At post-mortem examination anterior and dorso-medial nuclei of the thalamus were atrophied.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Atrophy
  • Autonomic Nervous System Diseases / genetics*
  • Autonomic Nervous System Diseases / pathology
  • Genes, Dominant
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders / genetics*
  • Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders / pathology
  • Thalamic Diseases / genetics*
  • Thalamic Diseases / pathology
  • Thalamic Nuclei* / pathology