Epilepsy, learning disability and anti-convulsant drug status.

Abstract

Epilepsy is frequently associated with learning disability, and can add considerably to the difficulties this client group experiences. However behavioural and daily living difficulties can be exacerbated by the seemingly common practice of polypharmacy, as this small-scale study shows. Barry Coughlan calls for further, detailed research into the appropriate administration of anti-convulsant drugs to children and adults with learning disabilities and epilepsy.