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Answer 24-2. This may be due to direct cerebral effects of sedative drugs, systemic electrolyte disturbances, various severe metabolic upsets, trauma, diffuse ischemic damage,may be observed in the period after seizure (postictal). In these cases of toxic or metabolic encephalopathy, brainstem function is usually preserved until last - may see Cheyne-Stokes respirations.