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Medications to Treat Epilepsy

from Section 2 - Medication Adverse Effects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 May 2019

By
Jeannine Conway
Edited by
Alan B. Ettinger ,
Deborah M. Weisbrot  and
Casey E. Gallimore
Alan B. Ettinger
Affiliation:
Safe Passage Diagnostics, New York
Deborah M. Weisbrot
Affiliation:
State University of New York, Stony Brook
Casey E. Gallimore
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin
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Synopsis of Neurology, Psychiatry and Related Systemic Disorders , pp. 774 - 780
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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