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The available clinical data on the risk of neurodevelopmental disorders with levetiracetam is extremely limited and involves data on around 100 children (Shallcross et al 2011, Bech et al 2018, Huber-Mollema et al 2019 and 2020). Levetiracetam was also included in the meta-analysis by Veroniki et al (2017b). The available data do not suggest an increased risk of cognitive developmental delay, psychomotor developmental delay and autism/dyspraxia. However, as the numbers of exposures remains limited this cannot be concluded definitively and so it is important that any emerging data is kept under close review.

The studies contain limited numbers of exposed pregnancies and for the studies that suggest an increased risk it is considered that the results may be affected by confounding. Clinical studies examining the effect of polytherapy are more limited and are restricted to data from the UK Epilepsy and Pregnancy Registry and the Australian Pregnancy Registry, involving more than 300 exposed pregnancies. Non-clinical studies in the published scientific literature in rodents showed neurodegenerative changes in the cerebral cortex and hippocampus of fetuses exposed to gabapentin during early and mid-pregnancy (Prakash et al 2008 and Badawy et al 2019). However, limitations in the design of these studies make them insufficient to determine the effects of gabapentin on the developing nervous system. An unpublished Good Laboratory Practice compliant study in pregnant rats showed non-dose-related behavioural changes in the performance of the offspring during tests of activity and emotionality but the changes were not statistically significantly different from those of the control animals. Overall, the non-clinical data does not provide clear evidence that exposure to gabapentin during pregnancy adversely affects the development of the central nervous system.

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• Doing (what you have always done) is Body-Mind maintenance, not improvement.
• For both clobazam and clonazepam, there are data on approximately 300 and 1,000 exposed pregnancies respectively; however, this is still a relatively moderate number and the findings are inconsistent.
• This means that there is a lack of randomised clinical data on the effects of the drug in human pregnancy.

The number cerebrumiq of exposures in the available clinical studies remains very limited and this is an area where further study would be very important. Overall, very few clinical studies have examined the risk of major congenital malformations in pregnancies exposed to zonisamide and the number of pregnancies exposed to monotherapy is very small (less than 100 pregnancies). Further clinical data are available from a small retrospective questionnaire-based study conducted in Japan (Kondo et al 1996) and the Swedish Medical Birth Register (Källén et al., 2013). The study by Kondo et al reported on the outcomes of 26 pregnancies, of which only 4 were pregnancies exposed to zonisamide monotherapy.

This further information can be collected by a number of means including through spontaneous reporting schemes such as the Yellow Card Scheme in the UK, population-based birth registries of children born with congenital malformations, pregnancy registries and observational studies. The data from the birth registries, pregnancy registries and observational studies are used to determine the association of exposure to antiepileptic drugs during pregnancy and adverse outcomes in infants and children. To support informed decision-making, in July 2019 the Commission on Human Medicines (CHM) endorsed a proposal for a review of data from non-clinical and clinical studies relating to the safety of non-valproate antiepileptic drugs during pregnancy.

Based on this split-brain model, the behavioral aspect of cognitive-behavioral therapy would be more cerebellar and the cognitive aspects of CBT would be more cerebral. Additionally, the key to avoiding “paralysis by analysis” would be to rely less on the prefrontal cortex and more on the cerebellum. I realize now that this hypothesis isn’t 100 percent accurate; there’s more to the story. At CVI Scotland we are devoted to helping people understand cerebral visual impairments, and together working towards developing the understanding of this complex condition.

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• As is it not a diagnosable medical condition, there is no consensus as to the criteria, symptoms or definition.
• Motor skills are movements and actions of the muscles to perform a specific task.
• Of these studies, only Samren 1997 and Kaneko et al 1999 reported a dose-effect.

Each “intelligence” can be thought of as a separate “microprocessor” inside our head. The phenomenon of true “genius” appears to come when many of these intelligences are well developed and used simultaneously. Part of the accelerated learning model is that information in a study session is presented in ways which address as many of the “intelligences” as possible. This not only makes retention and recall of information easier (there are many more “hooks” from which to get the information back out again) but it is continuously improving each intelligence skill. Those who want to know more should refer to Tony Buzan’s book “Use your Head”. When you receive information from a typical spoken lecture, do you know how much and what information you recall during the lecture, at the end of the lecture and days or weeks afterwards?

Click here for more information on PMLD from UKs NHS.See also Developmental Delay and Global Developmental Delay, above. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) / Obsessive BehavioursOCD is a diagnosable medical condition where a person feels unable to control a compulsion to do things repeatedly or organise things is a very rigid way. There are many on-line resources about OCD including from the UKs NHS Website, click here.Many with CVI struggle to find things. To help people with CVI find things, they need them to stay where they are, so they can remember where to find them (because looking is difficult). This can lead to the person becoming very particular about things not being moved, to the point where the behaviour may be considered obsessive. This is different from the condition OCD, although potentially could lead to it over time, however we are unaware of any such recorded cases at present.

The increased malformations observed in mice occurred at plasma concentrations relevant to the human therapeutic dose. Therefore, based on the currently available non-clinical data the risk of a teratogenic effect following therapeutic use in humans cannot be excluded. Based on the pooled data from this study the prevalence of major malformations (any type) for children exposed to zonisamide was calculated to be 0.28% (95% CI 0.25–2.39) in the meta-analysis by Weston et al 2016. The preliminary conclusion from review of emerging unpublished clinical data is that there was no evidence of an increased risk for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism spectrum disorders and learning disabilities in pregabalin-exposed children. The findings from clinical studies with regards to the risk of fetal death in association with in-utero exposure to oxcarbazepine are inconsistent.