Sudden Death in Epilepsy: Do Seizures Travel From Cortex to Brainstem? (IMAGE)

University of Connecticut

Sudden Death in Epilepsy: Do Seizures Travel From Cortex to Brainstem?

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Keep on Breathing: People with epilepsy can stop breathing and die suddenly, with or without a seizure. A group of UConn neuroscientists traced the problem to a gene that causes both seizures in the cortex and respiratory irregularities in the brainstem.

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Dan Mulkey and Virge Kask, University of Connecticut.

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