Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is the most common cause of death in intractable epilepsies, but physiological mechanisms that lead to SUDEP are unknown. Dravet syndrome (DS) is an infantile-onset intractable epilepsy caused by heterozygous loss-of-function mutations in the
Franck Kalume, Ruth E. Westenbroek, Christine S. Cheah, Frank H. Yu, John C. Oakley, Todd Scheuer, William A. Catterall
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