Sentences with phrase «epilepsy drug research»
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He added that many drug companies have stopped their research into finding new medicines for epilepsy.
But new research holds out hope that drugs developed to treat other neurological problems — notably epilepsy — could rein in the compulsive and blind drive to eat at the core of the disorder.
A 2013 joint report from epilepsy research organizations explained that «because the marketplace is already awash with [antiseizure drugs], many pharmaceutical companies now refrain from the expensive enterprise of developing new compounds.»
Children born to women who took the epilepsy drug Depakote while pregnant had lower IQ scores than those whose moms took three other antiseizure meds, research published this week shows.
Two newer epilepsy drugs may not harm the thinking skills or IQs of school - aged children whose mothers took them while pregnant — but an older drug is linked to cognitive problems in children, especially if their mothers took high doses — according to new research from The University of Manchester.
Long term, this research provides a molecular target for developing the first drugs to prevent epilepsy.
«Expectant mothers with epilepsy may need to continue their drug regime during pregnancy; this research may give them some reassurance that — provided they are prescribed topirimate and levetiracetam — they will a statistically good chance of normal, healthy development in their children,» concluded Dr Bromley.
«From our past research, we know the ketogenic diet is effective in approximately one - third of adults with epilepsy who are resistant to traditional anti-seizure drugs,» says Mackenzie C. Cervenka, M.D., associate professor of neurology and director of the Adult Epilepsy Diet Center at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Due to its relatively high prevalence, the disabling nature of temporal lobe seizures, and the difficulty of treating with drugs, there has been much research study on this type of epilepsy, particularly over the past 20 years.
Other research has found this condition in individuals with cerebellar ataxia, stiff man syndrome, type I diabetes, drug - resistant epilepsy, balance problems and more (16).
Since 1920, the ketogenic diet has been recognized as an effective tool in the treatment of severe childhood epilepsy, but following the introduction of anticonvulsant drugs, the interest in ketogenic diet treatment waned until the 1990s, with subsequent research and clinical trials demonstrating its practical usefulness.