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. 2024 Feb 6;24(2):132-134.
doi: 10.1177/15357597241228476. eCollection 2024 Mar-Apr.

AIR Hunger-Why Amygdala Seizures Suppress Breathing

Cameron S Metcalf  1
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AIR Hunger-Why Amygdala Seizures Suppress Breathing

Cameron S Metcalf. Epilepsy Curr. .
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The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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  • Failure to breathe persists without air hunger or alarm following amygdala seizures.
    Harmata GI, Rhone AE, Kovach CK, Kumar S, Mowla MR, Sainju RK, Nagahama Y, Oya H, Gehlbach BK, Ciliberto MA, Mueller RN, Kawasaki H, Pattinson KT, Simonyan K, Davenport PW, Howard MA 3rd, Steinschneider M, Chan AC, Richerson GB, Wemmie JA, Dlouhy BJ. Harmata GI, et al. JCI Insight. 2023 Nov 22;8(22):e172423. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.172423. JCI Insight. 2023. PMID: 37788112 Free PMC article.

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