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FATAL FAMILIAL INSOMNIA BIO PSA
The question for my presentation that I was looking for an answer to was "What treatments have been discovered to fight or cure Fatal Familial Insomnia?" In my research I found that there has been some treatments tested on mice models that have slowed down the deadly disease, but researchers have not found one that will completely cure or sufficiently fight Fatal Familial Insomnia. In my discussion I talk about when the disease was discovered and how rare it is. I also explain what a prion disease is and codon is being effected. I have a chart in my presentation that compares the different sleep spindles, normal sleep vs. FFI sleep, so that the viewer can understand how extremely different a person with FFI sleep stages are to some one with normal sleep functions. The majority of my presentation was focused on the treatments section in which I list the tested treatments, some examples of cases that I found, and whether they made a difference or not. I found out that sleeping medications are the least successful in helping patients with FFI and can actually worsen the condition. Gene therapy as we discussed in the course already is the replacement of a mutated gene with a repaired one. The findings from the gene therapy case and agomelatine case showed that they are a helpful treatment, but not the cure to FFI. Even though these treatments did not work sufficiently to cure FFI, I think they are leading the researchers in the right direction to actually find the cure.From:DMarie23ifyViews:0 0ratingsTime:05:23More inPeople Blogs

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