Changes Clinical Practice: In children with absence epilepsy, ethosuximide should be preferred as the first-line anticonvulsant. Childhood absence epilepsy is one of the most common epilepsy syndromes ...

About one-third of people with epilepsy aren't helped by existing drugs. But a commonly prescribed medicine used for almost 50 years to treat the disorder has revealed new information about how the ...

Anti-seizure medications, which are also called anticonvulsants or anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs), are medications used to prevent seizures for people who have epilepsy. All AEDs are available only by ...

In the past 6 years, 11 children on valproic acid have developed pancreatitis in our children's hospital. Valproic acid has been used as one of the primary anticonvulsants for generalized seizures in ...

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 – ...

Women who take the epilepsy medication valproic acid during pregnancy have more than twice the risk of having a child with autism, new research suggests. The study also found that taking the drug ...

Valproic acid -- a drug used to treat epilepsy, migraine, and bipolar disorder -- can cause birth defects when taken during pregnancy. Now, a study reveals one reason why: valproic acid (VPA) puts ...

Please can you give a brief introduction to valproic acid? What conditions is this drug used to treat? Valproic acid is one of the most widely prescribed drugs for the treatment of epilepsy. It has ...

Untreated obese mice have many large, white droplets of fat in their liver cells (left) compared to obese mice treated with valproic acid (right).--Courtesy of Lindsay Avery and Namandjé Bumpus A ...

Valproic acid - a drug used to treat epilepsy, migraine, and bipolar disorder - can cause birth defects when taken during pregnancy. Now, a study publishing June 14 th in the open access journal PLOS ...

Valproic acid—a drug used to treat epilepsy, migraine, and bipolar disorder—can cause birth defects when taken during pregnancy. Now, a study publishing June 14 th in the open access journal PLOS ...