Your Fantastic Mind
Your Fantastic Mind: Episode 5
2/11/2019 | 25m 9sVideo has Closed Captions
Sleeping Beauty Syndrome. NFL Player dealing with ALS. Resilience gene?
It’s called Hypersomnia and it’s a condition where people sleep their lives away, sometimes 20 plus hours a day. Kerry Goode hails from an iconic football family in Alabama. He now has ALS. We have followed his progression for a year and a half as he has gone from walking to wheelchair bound. Scientists at Emory have discovered a gene that accounts for resilience. 15% of the population has it.
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Your Fantastic Mind is a local public television program presented by GPB
Your Fantastic Mind
Your Fantastic Mind: Episode 5
2/11/2019 | 25m 9sVideo has Closed Captions
It’s called Hypersomnia and it’s a condition where people sleep their lives away, sometimes 20 plus hours a day. Kerry Goode hails from an iconic football family in Alabama. He now has ALS. We have followed his progression for a year and a half as he has gone from walking to wheelchair bound. Scientists at Emory have discovered a gene that accounts for resilience. 15% of the population has it.
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