Lower IQs Linked To Epilepsy Medication

American Voices

May 26, 2009 | ISSUE 45•22

Children of women who took the antiseizure drug valproate had lower IQs than those of women on other epilepsy medications. What do you think?

As someone who lives above a day-care center, I would like to know how these researchers differentiate the low-IQ children from the rest."

Wade Brookner
Olive Brine Tester
Who funded this study? Was it those crooks in the Dilantin camp? They never could stand valproate's success."

Brooke Roberts
Unemployed
Ha! Pregnant women will eat anything, won't they?"

Kyle Purnell
Rubber Compounder

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