Epilepsy clinicians who also specialize in women’s health and work with women during the perinatal period can consult with a ...

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 - ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two widely prescribed epilepsy drugs have been linked to a rare but serious allergic reaction that can be life-threatening, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warns. Although the risk of ...

Praxis Precision Medicines, Inc. (NASDAQ: PRAX), a fully integrated, leading central nervous system (CNS) precision ...

A class of drugs already used to treat high blood pressure has an added bonus, according to a new study: lowering epilepsy risk by up to 30%. Further research is needed, but the findings suggest there ...

University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have revealed how the popular, low-carb ketogenic diet protects against ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Some seizure drugs may not raise the risk of suicide for patients with epilepsy as feared, but they more than double the risk for people with depression, researchers reported on ...

Seoul National University Hospital researchers have developed an AI model that predicts the response to an anticonvulsant ...

Overall, the study found no effects on the children’s creative abilities or their executive function, which is a person’s ability to plan, focus, and manage multiple tasks. However, when researchers ...