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Breathing impairment in central alveolar hypoventilation and Rett syndrome
F Cirignotta1, S Mondini, M Zucconi
1Institute of Neurology, University of Bologna, Italy.
Functional Neurology
|October 1, 1987
Abstract:
Breathing is regulated by the behavioural and the automatic systems, the former mainly acting during wakefulness, the latter during sleep. Central alveolar hypoventilation and breathing disorders in Rett syndrome indicate a selective impairment of the two systems.