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...ted a mathematical model describing the electrical storm that rages during a brain seizure. They say the model, to be published in the March 22 print issue of the Journal of the Royal Society of London Interface, but available now to subscribers online, may eventually help neurologists better understand an...Assessing the season: LSU hurricane experts learned lessons during Hurricane Season 2004
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