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 ...

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 ...

A small preliminary study has found that valproic acid--a drug already used to treat epileptic seizures, migraines and bipolar disorder--may halt or even reverse the loss of vision produced by ...

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 ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers observed differences in survival between antiseizure medications in post-stroke epilepsy, with ...

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 ...

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 ...