CURE Award, Funded by the Maggie Loeffel Award

Seizures And Respiration – A Possible Basis For SUDEP

Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, NH

2006 Walter M. St. John, PhD

The Maggie Loeffel Award

Although seizure-induced changes in breathing and/or in the function of the heart have been proposed as the cause for this devastating consequence of epilepsy, much research still needs to be done. This investigator will categorize changes in breathing during seizures and describe how these changes might be responsible for SUDEP.