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Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (health) and Kahn, Herman (sh)


Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (health)


Failure from birth of central nervous system control over breathing while asleep. There are usually no breathing problems while awake. The involuntary (autonomic) control of respiration is impaired, but the voluntary control of ventilation which operates during waking hours is generally intact.





Kahn, Herman (sh)




born Feb. 15, 1922, Bayonne, N.J., U.S.
died July 7, 1983, Chappaqua, N.Y.

U.S. physicist and strategist.

He studied at the California Institute of Technology and joined the RAND Corp., where he studied the application to military strategy of new analytic techniques such as game theory, operations research, and systems analysis. He won public notice with On Thermonuclear War (1960), in which he contended that thermonuclear war differs only in degree from conventional war and ought to be analyzed and planned in the same way. In 1961 he established the Hudson Institute for research into matters of national Security and public policy.