Sentences with phrase «other epilepsy drugs»

Of those children, 64 were exposed to valproate in utero, 44 to lamotrigine, 76 to carbamazepine, and 65 to other epilepsy drugs or combinations of drugs.

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Yet marijuana is far less dangerous than many other drugs, and cannabis or its derivatives have been used to treat everything from chronic pain to post-traumatic stress disorder to childhood 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.

In a recent trial of 225 patients, completed in September 2016, participants who took the drug (along with their other epilepsy medications) reduced their nonstop seizures by 42 percent, compared with 17 percent for those taking a placebo.

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.

The DNA Lounge can not sell any of these compounds as smart drugs because most can only be legally prescribed by doctors, and even then only for other purposes: L - Dopa for Parkinson's disease, phenytoin for epilepsy, propanolol for certain heart conditions.

The ability to temporarily disable or stimulate parts of the brain with the flick of a switch has led researchers to explore DBS in the treatment of several other conditions, including epilepsy, depression, obesity and drug addiction.

AES, the American Academy of Neurology and other professional societies had opposed patients substituting antiepileptic generics for people with epilepsy without consent of the physician or patient out of concern that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was allowing room for too much variability across formulations.

Importantly, the researchers began testing drugs currently used for diseases other than epilepsy.

One team in Australia is experimenting (on mice) with ultrasound to clear up plaque buildup and the other team (in the US) is using an already approved drug commonly used to treat epilepsy

We also perform pharmacogenetics testing to help physicians choose the right drug at the right time for treatment of childhood epilepsy and other disorders.

Such changes in neuronal function are likely to play important roles in all normal physiological processes in the brain and are critical for development of a variety of brain diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, epilepsy, drug dependence and other neurological and psychiatric disorders.

Existing treatments for chronic migraines, a condition characterized by 15 or more migraines per month, mainly exist as a secondary benefit of drugs intended to treat other conditions, including depression, epilepsy, and high blood pressure.

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).

When drugs fail, other options include epilepsy surgery, vagus nerve stimulation and the ketogenic diet.

Significantly, it's been shown to reduce epileptic seizures in drug - resistant children19 as well as other individuals with epilepsy.

Dr Wilder's diet controlled pediatric epilepsy in many cases where drugs and other treatments failed.