In a heartbeat: Autonomic changes during seizures

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Donna C Bergen. Epilepsy Curr. 2005 Sep-Oct.

. 2005 Sep-Oct;5(5):194-6.

doi: 10.1111/j.1535-7511.2005.00062.x.

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