There are many 'newer' antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) widely used for various seizure types and seizure disorders. However, there is limited specific evidence for the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of these treatments in the elderly population. Areas covered: This review summarises the current most...
Depending on your child's age, it might be helpful to explain the seizure. If your child has epilepsy, help your child understand how epilepsy will affect him or her. Help your child learn safety precautions to take. Ask your child about any auras he or she had before the seizure. Help...
The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) has recently updated its practise advisory on antiseizure medication withdrawal. The recommendations have been formulated for pediatric as well as adult epilepsy, with emphasis on the risk factors for seizure relapse, occurrence of status epilepticus or death on...
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9 In our cohort, there had been a continual increase in the use of the new AEDs, both as initial and subsequent treatments, since the early 1990s. Yet compared with our initial analysis in the first 470 patients, the seizure-free rate observed in the present study (63.7%) was virtually ...
Older treatments and novel options are changing the way obesity is treated and managed Since this article was written, the FDA hasapproved tirzepatidein adults with obesity or overweight plus 1 weight-related comorbidity. In 2013, the American Medical Association designated obesity as a chronic dise...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new medication to treat seizures linked to Dravet syndrome. ...
TARGETED TREATMENT AS THE NEXT STEP FOR TREATMENTS DURING DEVELOPMENT Common Risk Factors May Point to Neurobiological Systems for Further Study Most medication treatments for neuropsychiatric disorders were discovered by happenstance coupled with careful clinical observation, rather than emerging from an ...