AAN: Maternal Seizure Drug Use Not Harmful to Infants

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Breast-feeding infants whose mothers are on anti-epileptic drug monotherapy do not appear to have an increased risk of cognitive impairment at age 2, according to research presented this week at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology in Chicago.

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