New Orleans -- Epilepsy and its treatment have proven to impair cognitive and behavioral functions. The impact on the former by epilepsy associated seizures, brain damage, and use of anticonvulsant ...

Approximately 500,000 women with epilepsy are of childbearing age in the United States. [1] The need for antiepileptic drug treatment should be reassessed in all women with epilepsy who are ...

The global burden of epilepsy and seizure disorders has stimulated ongoing efforts to discover novel anticonvulsant agents with enhanced efficacy and safety profiles. Medicinal chemistry strategies ...

Government policies aimed at curbing excessive use of powerful psychiatric drugs for dementia patients in nursing homes are probably having an unintended side effect: greater use of anti-seizure ...

Since 1975, the ADD program has been testing and identifying antiseizure drugs for the nearly one-third of people with epilepsy that is refractory to current medications. The University of Utah ...

Seizures and chronic kidney disease are both common and often coexist. Treating seizures in patients with renal failure, including those on dialysis, is a challenge that is frequently encountered, ...

Epilepsy affects over 65 million people worldwide and one third of patients exhibit resistance to current therapies, driving a persistent need for novel anticonvulsant agents. Preclinical research ...

Scientists at the Ohio State University report that gabapentin, currently prescribed to control seizures and reduce nerve pain, may enhance recovery of movement after a stroke by helping neurons on ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Widely used anticonvulsant drugs, including Pfizer's Neurontin and Novartis' Trileptal, may increase the risk of suicide, attempted suicide and violent death in patients taking ...

Research funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institutes of Health, suggests that gamma vinyl-GABA (GVG)--a drug used to treat epilepsy--may prove to be an effective treatment ...

Topamax (topiramate) is a medication prescribed to help prevent migraine and manage seizures in people with epilepsy. The drug is available in tablet form or as a sprinkle capsule, and experts ...