Scientific journal articles concerning SUDEP

Numerous SUDEP-related articles are published in scientific journals that can be found at your local science/medical library.  For a listing of these articles, see the research bibliography.  Those available online are detailed, in date order, below.



Articles available online:

SUDEP: A Resource for Health Care Professionals and Researchers
Nauen DW (2010)

What Can Be Done to Reduce the Risk of SUDEP?
Scorza FA, Arida RM, Terra VC & Cavalheiro EA (2010), Epilepsy & Behavior 18:137-138, Elsevier Ltd.

Advances in Detecting, Monitoring and Preventing Seizures
Talan J (2010), Neurology Today 10(6), 11-12, AAN Enterprises Inc.


Breathing New Life into the Fight against SUDEP
Hirsch LJ (2009), Epilepsy Currents 9(5), 137-139, American Epilepsy Society.


Epilepsy and Sudden Death: personal reflections and call for global action
Lathers CM (2009), Epilepsy & Behavior 15, 269-277, Elsevier Ltd.


Report of the American Epilepsy Society and the Epilepsy Foundation Joint Task Force on Sudden Unexplained Death in Epilepsy
So EL, Bainbridge J, Buchhalter JR, Donalty J, Donner EJ, Finucane A, Graves NM, Hirsch LJ, Montouris GD, Temkin NR, Wiebe S, Sierzant TL (2009), Epilepsia 50(4), 917-922, Blackwell Publishing Inc.


Epilepsy: A 'Going Ape' Model for SUDEP?
Striano P & Zara F (2009), Nature Reviews Neurology 5, 639-640, Nature Publishing Group - a division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd.


Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy: risk factors and potential pathomechanisms
Surges R, Thijs RD, Tan HL & Sander JW (2009), Nature Reviews Neurology 5, 492-504, Nature Publishing Group - a division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd.


Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy: current knowledge and future directions
Tomson T, Nashef L & Ryvlin P (2008), The Lancet Neurology 7(11), 1021-1031, Elsevier Ltd.


Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy
Johnston A & Smith P (2007), Expert Rev. Neurotherapeutics 7(12), 1751-1761, Expert Reviews Ltd.


Risk Factors in Sudden Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP): the quest for mechanisms
Nashef L, Hindocha N & Makoff A (2007), Epilepsia
48(5), 859–871, Blackwell Publishing Inc.


SUDEP Aware thank the publishing houses for generously making these articles available to the public and thereby helping to improve awareness and understanding of SUDEP.