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Job Experience Important Before Epilepsy Surgery

A recent study revealed that most patients succeed in getting a job after temporal lobe surgery. But the most important predictor wasn’t seizure freedom, it was whether they were employed before the operation. Andres Kanner, M.D., Professor of Neurological Sciences, Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois, and his colleagues Marlis Frey, R.N., a certified nurse practitioner, ....

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Study Confirms Link Between Seizure Frequency and Menstruation in Some Women

According to Andrew Herzog, M.D., MSc, Director of the Harvard Neuroendocrine Unit, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, the idea of a relationship between seizure frequency and a woman’s menstrual cycle, known as catamenial epilepsy, dates back more than a century to Sir William Richard Gowers, an eminent British neurologist who wrote a textbook considered at ....

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Young Children Fail to Gain Weight on Valproate

One of the many possible side effects of antiepileptic drugs is a change in weight. Valproate, in particular, has been associated with weight gain. However, a recent study by Patricio Espinosa, MD, MPH, presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, San Diego suggests that weight gain with valproate may be a problem for teenagers and adults, but not ....

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