Neuroferritinopathy is a brain disease which traps people, mostly from one family, in their bodies.
Neuroferritinopathy is a rare brain condition that traps people in their bodies and seems to largely affect descendants of one family. As a university launches a drugs trial in a hope of reversing its effects, the BBC spoke to the family of four sisters diagnosed with the disease.
The following years brought more devastating news for the family as each of Liz's three sisters were diagnosed with the same condition. A trial at Cambridge University will test if an existing drug can be repurposed to draw out the iron, and halt, reverse or possibly even "cure" some patients.Family handoutHer husband Stephen, 59, says she too can understand everything going on in the world around her, but cannot communicate."We'd seen Elizabeth deteriorate, and we just knew that it was going to be life-changing," says Stephen, who is now his wife's devoted carer.
Investigations have also taken place to see if they could have shared common ancestry with Fletcher Christian, known for leading the mutiny on the Bounty in April 1789, given he was also from the region, but that evidence remains unclear.
"Drug repurposing trials are an increasingly effective way of taking treatments that have already been approved and applying them to new conditions and diseases," says Dr Catriona Crombie, from LifeArc.
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