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Taking  Meds

                              MEDICATIONS                                

Click this link for a fact sheet that will help you and your doctor talk about medicines—

called antiepileptic drugs or AEDs—that help manage, or could possibly end seizures. Recent studies suggest that the

new AEDs can also improve your quality of life by minimizing side effects:

And another about:  

Drug information for consumers from the publishers of the Physicians Drug Reference (PDR): http://www.pdrhealth.com/drug_info/index.html

"It has been suggested that the newer AEDs ... may cause less cognitive side effects than older AEDs."
Source: "The Development of New Antiepileptic Drugs," The National Society for Epilepsy
http://www.e-epilepsy.org.uk/pages/articles/show_article.cfm?id=97

An examination of the differences between "First" and "Second" generation drugs: http://www.neurologychannel.com/epilepsy/medications.shtml