Only about 27% of patients newly diagnosed with focal epilepsy are seizure-free on initial anti-seizure medications, new ...

“Controlling seizures during pregnancy is an important ... Newer antiseizure drugs that are widely used today are generally considered safe, but little is known about whether they affect ...

Treating epilepsy during pregnancy is challenging, as some antiseizure medications, primarily older drugs such as valproate, ...

Nevertheless, a whopping 72.9% said they did not want more education about their medication's risks and interactions with ...

Children of mothers who took certain anti-seizure medications while pregnant do not have worse neurodevelopmental outcomes at age 6, according to a long-running study.

The optics-based approach could ultimately replace the surgical procedures currently used to remove the brain tissue where ...

A comprehensive study reveals that children exposed to newer antiseizure medications in utero show no differences in ...

Anti-seizure medications are typically the first line of treatment and may be used alone or in combination, depending on the ...

Two common antiseizure medications, lamotrigine and levetiracetam, are safe to use during pregnancy, according to a Stanford Medicine-led study.

Six-year-olds who were exposed prenatally to common antiseizure medications had normal verbal and cognitive abilities, a ...

In what could one day become a new treatment for epilepsy, researchers have used pulses of light to prevent seizure-like activity in neurons. In what could one day become a new treatment for ...