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NIH Grant Awarded To Jefferson Researcher Studying Antiepileptic Seizure Medications.

Dec 11th 2008Drug InformationEpilepsy

Scott Mintzer, M.D., assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, and director of the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit at the Jefferson Comprehensive Epilepsy Center of Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience was recently awarded a Junior Investigator grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the adverse metabolic effects of antiepileptic seizure medications.

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Despite FDA Suicide Warning Epilepsy Experts Urge Patients And Caregivers To Continue Drug Therapy

Dec 11th 2008Drug InformationEpilepsy

Medical specialists at the nation’s largest professional meeting on epilepsy discussed multiple questions and concerns they have about data presented by the FDA in support of its recent suicide alert on anticonvulsant drugs (AEDs) and the potential effect of the federal agency’s analyses on clinical practice and the way AED drug trials are to be conducted in the future.

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Convergence Of Technology Shows Potential For Restoring Brain Function, Targeted Cell Therapy And New Imaging Techniques

Dec 11th 2008Drug InformationEpilepsy

Epileptologists are constantly searching for non-invasive or minimally invasive ways to uncover and describe the brain down to its most fundamental cellular and molecular detail and function. Their goal is to achieve the ability to locate and treat the specific cells, neurons or network that start the train of events that produce seizures. Another is to restore cognitive function after possible injury from continuous seizures.

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