Healthy brain–muscle interface in epilepsy and COVID-19: Increased muscle effort is the alternative

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Response to: “Healthy brain-muscle interface in epilepsy and COVID-19: Increased muscle effort is the alternative”

“…We appreciate the opportunity to respond to this letter and thank Drs. Luiz Vancini, Santos Andrade, Knechtle, Theodoros Nikolaidis, and de Lira for their comments regarding our systematic review [1,2]. We reported that many articles (76.5%) did not describe any limitations concerning temporality when discussing the causality between psychological stress and seizure worsening in patients with epilepsy during the COVID-19 pandemic.…”