Out of thin air: hyperventilation-triggered seizures
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Voluntary hyperventilation triggers seizures in the vast majority of people with absence epilepsy. The mechanisms that underlie this phenomenon remain unknown. Herein, we review observations - many made long ago - that provide insight into the relationship between breathing and absence seizures.
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Another EEG with activation by hyperventilation 3 weeks later revealed normal results without any sign of epilepsy.
“Another electroencephalography with activation by hyperventilation 3 weeks later also revealed normal results without any sign of epilepsy (in particular absence and temporal lobe epilepsy) (91–93).”
From Combined Fainting and Psychogenic Non-epileptic Seizures as Significant Therapy Hurdles in Blood-Injury-Injection Phobia: A Mini-Review and Case Report (2022) · cites this paper as [91]
The “Hyperventilation triggers absence seizures” section says hyperventilation during EEG is commonly used to diagnose absence epilepsy. It does not report a repeat EEG three weeks later, a normal result in the person described, or an assessment of temporal lobe epilepsy. No page number is available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.78)
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- Authors
- Salvati, K. A., & Beenhakker, M. P.
- Affiliations
- University of Virginia (US)
- Corresponding author
- Beenhakker, Mark P.
- Venue
- Brain Research
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2019-01
- Volume
- 1703
- Pages
- 41-52
- ISSN
- 0006-8993 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC6546426
- OpenAlex
- W2781147883
- Cited by
- 30
- References
- 123
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 2
- FWCI
- 0.29
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Brain Research (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (T32GM007055)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R01NS099586)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Epilepsy research and treatment
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function
- Keywords
- hyperventilation, absence epilepsy, absence seizures, seizure triggers
- MeSH terms
- Brain, Cerebral Cortex, Epilepsy, Absence, Humans, Hyperventilation, Respiration, Seizures, Thalamus
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