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Manoj Patel Lab

The Patel Lab at the University of Virginia is located in the Department of Anesthesiology. Our research focuses on sodium channels and on epilepsy, specifically an epilepsy syndrome known as SCN8A epileptic encephalopathy as well as Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP).

Recent Publications

Clozapine-N-Oxide (CNO) suppresses cortical ictal activity but not apnea associated with audiogenic seizuresForebrain epileptiform activity is not required for seizure-induced apnea in a mouse model of Scn8a epilepsy

This publication at the Frontiers in Neural Circuits focuses on some of our in vivo work on Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP). Multiple previous undergraduate students are co-authors on this work!

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Manoj K. Patel (email)