Its product, the VNS Therapy System, has been in use in this country since 1997 to control epilepsy.

However, its efficacy and safety are well established in other difficult to control epilepsy syndromes.

"It is possible that patients taking Neurontin to control epilepsy could experience seizures from a missed dose of the product," says Pfizer's news release.

It has been hypothesized that the high-fat low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet used clinically to control drug-resistant epilepsy in children works by elevating acetone in the brain.

A diet that can control epilepsy and stop seizures without any medication?

Remember, too, that some drugs used to control epilepsy may make you drowsy.

Medication is also used to control post-traumatic epilepsy; however the preventive use of anti-epileptics is not recommended.

A medicine commonly used to control epilepsy appears to cause minor birth defects and retardation in the children of women who take it while pregnant, a study concludes.

The VNS was approved in 1997 as a therapy to control epilepsy.

His early surgical interventions to control epilepsy laid the foundation for the development of modern ideas about the unique identities of the right and left brains.