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Flipboard Science Desk (sciencedesk@flipboard.social)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 06:06:04 JST Flipboard Science Desk

Donald Dorff could hear the crowd roaring as he snatched the quarterback’s throw from the air. All that stood between him and the goal line was a 280-pound defender. “I decided to give him my shoulder,” he told National Geographic magazine in 1987. “When I came to, I was on the floor in my bedroom.” CNN describes how Dorff went from retired grocery manufacturer to the first patient to be diagnosed with a new sleep disorder. https://flip.it/C4pesM
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1. He was the first person to be diagnosed with a new sleep disorder. It led to a scientific breakthrough | CNN
  
  from Sandee LaMotte
  
  A man who acted out his dreams was the first case of a new sleep disorder that led investigators to one of the earliest signs of Parkinson’s disease and dementia.

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