Cognitive side effects of anti-epileptic drugs
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Cognitive side effects of anti-epileptic drugs The relevance in childhood epilepsy
In recent years several new anti-epileptic drugs have been introduced, also for the treatment of childhood epilepsy. A major concern is their effect on learning and cognitive development. Testing the genuine effects on cognition of the anti-epileptic drugs is methodologically not easy. At this moment there are very few controlled trials that systematically examine the cognitive side effects of ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Seizure
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1059-1311
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2006.02.013