Postictal serotonin levels are associated with peri-ictal apnea

Arun Murugesan1, M R Sandhya Rani2, Laura Vilella1

  • 1From the Department of Neurology (A.M.), Case Western Reserve University; Department of Neurology (M.R.S.R., L.V., N.L., J.P.H., S.D.L.), McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston; Department of Pharmacology and Neurology (C.L.F.), Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield; Department of Neurology (D.F., O.D.), New York University School of Medicine, New York; Department of Neurology (R.K.S., G.R.), University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City; Department of Neurology (S.S.), Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL; Institute of Neurology (B.D.), University College London, UK; Department of Neurology (M.N.), Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA; Department of Neurobiology (R.M.H.), David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; Department of Neurology (L.M.B.), Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY; and Center for SUDEP Research (M.R.S.R., L.V., N.L., D.F., O.D., R.K.S., S.S., B.D., M.N., R.M.H., L.M.B., G.R., S.D.L.), National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD.

Neurology
|September 6, 2019
PubMed
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