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Study raises questions about use of anti-epilepsy drugs in newborns

Development, Memory, Motivation, Neuroscience, Psychology depression, drugs

A brain study in infant rats demonstrates that the anti-epilepsy drug phenobarbital stunts neuronal growth, which could prompt new questions about using the first-line drug to treat epilepsy in human newborns.

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