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Laura Vilella1, Nuria Lacuey2, Johnson P Hampson2

  • 1From the NINDS Center for SUDEP Research (L.V., N.L., S.O., M.O.-U., S.T., M.R.S.R., R.K.S., D.F., M.N., C.S., L.A., B.K.G., J.S.H., S.S., J.O., R.M.H., B.D., L.M.B., O.D., G.B.R., P.R., G.-Q.Z., S.D.L.) and Department of Neurology (L.V., N.L., J.P.H., S.O., M.O.-U., S.T., M.R.S.R., N.J.H., J.S.H., G.-Q.Z., S.D.L.), McGovern Medical School, and Biostatistics and Epidemiology Research Design Core (L.Z., G.B.R.), Division of Clinical and Translational Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston; Departament de Medicina (L.V.), Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain; University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine (R.K.S., B.K.G.), Iowa City; NYU Langone School of Medicine (D.F., O.D.), New York; Sidney Kimmel Medical College (M.N.), Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA; Division of Pulmonary (K.S.), Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University Hospitals Medical Center, Cleveland, OH; Institute of Neurology (C.S., L.A., B.D.), University College London, UK; Case Western Reserve University (N.S., X.Z., V.R.-M.), Cleveland, OH; Feinberg School of Medicine (S.S.), Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; Department of Neurobiology and the Brain Research Institute (J.O., R.M.H.), University of California, Los Angeles; Department of Neurology (L.M.B.), Columbia University, New York, NY; and Department of Clinical Neuroscience (P.R.), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland. Lvilellabertran@gmail.com.

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