Of the U.S.' 2.5 million epileptics, about 10% can't be helped by chemical therapy.

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Even now, Ovation's parent company, Lundbeck, will probably make more from selling Sabril to adult epileptics than to babies.

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If that works, it could transform the lives of epileptics who now have to live with debilitating doses of drugs.

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That conflicts not only with the limbic-system theory but also with earlier reports of a so-called God Spot that derived partly from work conducted on epileptics.

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Epileptics can enter their seizure information into a seizure monitor.

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Epileptics report a range of side-effects, some of them severe, when they are switched from a branded to a generic anti-epileptic drug (AED) or switched from one generic to another.

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Dr Blanke, by contrast, works with epileptics.

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