[Nfbmo] FW: [MSB-Alumni] FW: Headline: The totally blind, unable to perceive light, are often afflicted with a rare sleep disorder - The Boston Globe

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Subject: Headline: The totally blind, unable to perceive light, are often
afflicted with a rare sleep disorder - The Boston Globe

 

Date:     Nov 12, 2012      

A rare condition called non-24 sleep-wake disorder, or "non-24,"
characterized by a body clock that is out of synch with the 24-hour cycle of
the Earth day, can affect those with normal vision, but it especially
plagues the totally blind who can't perceive light. Of approximately 100,000
totally blind people in the United States, anywhere from 55 percent to 70
percent of them may suffer from non-24, according to Harvard neuroscientist
Steven Lockley.

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