The University of Utah College of Pharmacy's Anticonvulsant Drug Development (ADD) Program has been awarded a five-year $19.5 million contract renewal with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to ...

Using a rodent model of epilepsy, researchers found one of the body's own neurotransmitters released during seizures, glutamate, turns on a signaling pathway in the brain that increases production of ...

Since 1975, the ADD program has been testing and identifying antiseizure drugs for the nearly one-third of people with epilepsy that is refractory to current medications. The University of Utah ...

A group of Australian clinical experts have developed consensus advice about medical cannabis recommendations for patients living with epilepsy. Epileptologists, clinical pharmacists, pharmacologists, ...

Although cannabis had been used for many centuries for treatment of seizure disorders, medical use became prohibited in the 20th century. However, with the loosening of laws regarding medical ...

Results from a study published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology may help explain why cannabidiol—a chemical component of marijuana with no psychoactive properties—reduces the frequency ...

Regents Professor D. Samba Reddy leads a team of pharmacology researchers that has made breakthrough discoveries in using CBD to treat and prevent hard-to-treat forms of epilepsy. The emerging field ...

(SALT LAKE CITY)—The University of Utah College of Pharmacy's Anticonvulsant Drug Development (ADD) Program has been awarded a five-year $19.5 million contract renewal with the National Institutes of ...

Expert Rev Neurother. 2009;9(1):33-42. Lacosamide was protective in a rat model of status epilepticus. In this model, epileptogenic lesions were induced by direct application of cobalt to the frontal ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered functional links between dozens of potassium channel gene variants and neonatal epilepsy, according to a study published in JCI Insight. The findings ...

Using a rodent model of epilepsy, researchers found one of the body’s own neurotransmitters released during seizures, glutamate, turns on a signaling pathway in the brain that increases production of ...