Response to First Drug Treatment May Be Indication of Future Epileptic Seizures

A new study has found that how well people with newly diagnosed epilepsy respond to their first drug treatment may signal the likelihood that they will continue to have more seizures. The results of this research appear in the May 9, 2012, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

“Our research shows a pattern based on how a person responds to initial treatment and specifically, to their first two courses of drug treatment,” says study author Patrick Kwan, MD, PhD, of the University of Melbourne in Australia. For more information, click here to read the full article.