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 ...

A new study, out today in the Journal of the American Medical Association, has found that pharmacy closures in communities around Colorado significantly impact patient access to anticonvulsant ...

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, ...

RIKEN researchers have discovered how the structure of drugs for treating epilepsy allows them to interact with a key protein found in synapses at the junctions of neurons. This knowledge could help ...

The research by Craig Williams, Zainulabdeen Al-Jammali and Megan Herink looked at a pair of anticonvulsant medications that work the same way in the body. They bind to a certain protein in cells of ...

A new study published in the Journal of American Medical Association showed that antiepileptic medications are a leading ...

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 pharmacokinetic profile of antiepileptic drugs encompasses absorption, distribution, metabolism and elimination, all of which determine clinical efficacy and safety. Many antiepileptic agents ...