Mr. Tammet's book is an elegant account of how his condition has informed his life, a rare first-person insight into a mysterious and confounding disorder.

They suffered from nerves and other mysterious disorders that even paradise could not entirely dissipate.

The study also provides a clue about a possible underlying cause of the mysterious disorder, which claims its victims as they sleep.

Then they died of the mysterious disorder already mentioned, and at the age of one whole year Joseph set up as an orphan.

In another, he rails against a high-powered cancer specialist who disagrees with his treatment plan for a mysterious disorder.

AIDS, for acquired immune deficiency syndrome, is a mysterious fatal disorder that destroys the body's ability to fight off infection.

Autism is the mysterious neurological disorder that strands children in a private world, oblivious to others, without the curiosity and instinct to imitate, which makes learning possible.

Tinnitus remains a rather mysterious disorder and can present a challenge even to hearing specialists.

People with this mysterious disorder are often violent.

For many years, it was considered a mysterious disorder associated with some type of curse, and persons with the disease were isolated and ostracized.