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Every day thousands of families keep vigils around the clock, enduring the heartbreak of watching their beautiful children/siblings tortured by seizures or disappear into a haze of prescription drugs. They feel like hostages and cry for help! [1]
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Santilli, N. (1990). Perspective of the Patient. In: Porter, R.J., Schoenberg, B.S. (eds) Controlled Clinical Trials in Neurological Disease. Foundations of Neurology, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1495-0_4
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