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Ronald Ley, PhD
State University of New York at Albany 1400 Washington Ave Albany, NY 12222

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1997;54(7):677.

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In a reply to my criticisms of the false suffocationalarm theory of panic attacks,¹ Klein² stated that "Ley inexplicably ignores my discussion of Ondine's Curse." The explanation for this omission lies in my attempt to keep my letter within the 750-word limit recommended by the editor in his "Instructions for Authors," a limit that would have been grossly exceeded if I had used the same 600 words used in an earlier explanation³ of why the Ondine curse does not prove the existence of a suffocation alarm and why the curse is not the "pharmacological converse of panic disorders."⁴

My criticism might best be presented in the format of 2 questions. If the Ondine curse (the arrestation of breathing during sleep) proves that sleep free of suffocation depends on the existence of a suffocation alarm (presumably true alarms activated by the buildup of carbon dioxide) and if . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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