It's a multi-purpose medication that's been flagged for a specific quality issue. Here’s how to know if your prescription is ...

Focal treatment-resistant epilepsy improves over time, but seizure reduction appears to be unrelated to specific medications ...

Longitudinal data suggested that treatment-resistant focal epilepsy may improve over time. Focal treatment-resistant epilepsy ...

Side effects of prescription drugs are of particular concern during pregnancy. Two medicines used to control epileptic seizures -- and prescribed to patients with migraine, pain and bipolar disorder - ...

For 70% of patients with epilepsy, drugs can control seizures. However, they can't cure epilepsy, and most people will need to continue taking medications. An accurate diagnosis of the type of ...

Surgical intervention may offer substantial seizure reduction and functional benefits for individuals with ASD and drug-resistant epilepsy.

About one-third of patients with focal epilepsy, a common form of the neurological disorder, are believed to respond poorly ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women with epilepsy who take anti-seizure medication while they are pregnant are more likely to later report delays in their child's development and autism symptoms, ...

While older drugs for epilepsy, taken while pregnant, have been shown in previous research to affect the creative thinking of children, a new study finds no effects on creativity for children born to ...

Many people have experienced side effects when stopping ASMs. Hear from the epilepsy community and gain tips to help you through medication changes.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Guidelines released this week recommend that women with epilepsy should avoid taking the anti-epilepsy drug valproate during pregnancy, because of the risk of harmful ...

Military veterans who develop epilepsy following a traumatic brain injury might be more likely to die earlier than others ...