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Brian Dlouhy, MD, associate professor in the UI Department of Neurosurgery and the UI Stead Family Department of Pediatrics, is part of a research team that has spent more than a decade studying sudden unexplained death in epilepsy (SUDEP). The group identified for the first time a specific site in the brain’s amygdala that can cause prolonged apnea, or loss of breathing.

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Unraveling the SUDEP mystery

Iowa research pinpoints area in the brain’s amygdala as cause of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy
Monday, April 1, 2024
Medicine Iowa Magazine
https://medicineiowa.org/spring-2024/unraveling-sudep-mystery
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