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AOR received research support from Sage Therapeutics, UCB anmd EISAI. He's supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant nr. CR32I3_143780).

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  1. Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Service de Neurologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV) and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Andrea O. Rossetti

  2. Departments of Neurological Sciences, Neurosurgery, Anesthesiology, and Internal Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA

    Thomas P. Bleck

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Rossetti, A.O., Bleck, T.P. What’s new in status epilepticus?. Intensive Care Med 40, 1359–1362 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-014-3363-z

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