In May, 2013, a Finnish team of medical researchers led by M. Aratma published a study in Drug Safety titled “Effects of maternal epilepsy and antiepileptic drug use during pregnancy on perinatal health in offspring: nationwide, retrospective cohort study in Finland.”.  This piece further elucidated the link between prenatal exposure to antiepileptic drugs…

In a 2003 edition of Epilepsia, a piece titled “Clinical care of pregnant women with epilepsy: neural tube defects and folic acid supplementation.” by M.S. Yerby and a team from North Pacific Epilepsy Research in Portland, Oregon demonstrated that a child’s in utero exposure to maternal antiepileptic drugs (particularly those containing valproate…

A piece by medical researchers led by F.J. Vajda published in Acta Neurol Scand. (October, 2013), titled “Associations between particular types of fetal malformation and antiepileptic drug exposure in utero.” lives up to its title and provides more insight into the link between in utero exposure to epilepsy medication (Depacon, Depakene…

Appearing in the July-August, 2009 edition of the Spanish medical journal, Neurologia, a piece titled “Malformations and fetal death in the Spanish antiepileptic drug and pregnancy registry: results at 6 years” by M. Martinez Ferri et al. aimed to “study the incidence of major congenital malformations (MCM) /and/or fetal-perinatal death (MFP) and…

In April, 2002, a team of medical researchers from Aberdeen (UK) led by J.C. Dean published a study titled “Long term health and neurodevelopment in children exposed to antiepileptic drugs before birth.” in Journal of Medical Genetics investigating the link between neonatal and later childhood morbidity “in children exposed to antiepileptic drugs [AEDs]…

An article appearing in the May, 2010 edition of Epilepsia titled “The teratogenic risk of antiepileptic drug polytherapy.” by F.J. Vajda and a team from Royal Melbourne Hospital and University of  Melbourne (Australia) further explores the connection between antiepileptic drugs containing sodium valproate such as Depacon, Depakene, and Depakote and increased…

In February, 2011, C. Nadebaum and a British research team published a piece in Neurology titled “Language skills of school-aged children prenatally exposed to antiepileptic drugs.” that provides important insight into the connection between antiepileptic drugs containing sodium valproate (Depacon, Depakene, and Depakote) and birth defects.

Nadebaum et…

Back in 1992, a French research team led by C. Dravet published a piece in Neurology titled “Epilepsy, antiepileptic drugs, and malformations in children of women with epilepsy: a French prospective cohort study.” that illuminated risks of prenatal exposure to anti-seizure drugs Depacon, Depakene, and Depakote (Abbott Laboratories).  Since…