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The modern challenges of drug resistant epilepsy Volume 7, supplement 1, Supplement 1, September 2005

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Department of Functional Neurology and Epileptology, Hospices Civils de Lyon and Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France
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  • Published in: 2005

Auteur(s) : Philippe Ryvlin Department of Functional Neurology and Epileptology, Hospices Civils de Lyon and Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France For many decades, the epilepsy community has addressed the burden of drug resistant epilepsy by concentrating on the development of new anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) and more performant presurgical evaluations and epilepsy surgery procedures. This approach has resulted in some improvement, with an approximately 10% increase in the rate of seizure-free [...]