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1Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain, Patrick Wild Centre, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK.
Abstract:
This scientific commentary refers to 'Hyperexcitable superior colliculus and fatal brainstem spreading depolarization in a model of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy' by Cain et al. (https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcac006) and 'Ictal neural oscillatory alterations precede sudden unexpected death in epilepsy' by Gu et al. (https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcac073).
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