{"id":128205,"date":"2021-09-28T09:22:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T16:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/anti-seizure-medication-improves-cognitive-function-in-some-alzheimers-patients"},"modified":"2021-09-28T09:22:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T16:22:29","slug":"anti-seizure-medication-improves-cognitive-function-in-some-alzheimers-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/anti-seizure-medication-improves-cognitive-function-in-some-alzheimers-patients","title":{"rendered":"Anti-seizure medication improves cognitive function in some Alzheimer\u2019s patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/anti-seizure-medication-improves-cognitive-function-in-some-alzheimers-patients2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An inexpensive anti-seizure medication markedly improves learning and memory and other cognitive functions in Alzheimer\u2019s patients who have epileptic activity in their brains, according to a study published in the Sept. 27th issue of JAMA Neurology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a drug that\u2019s used for epilepsy,\u201d says Keith Vossel, MD, MSc, director of the Mary S. Easton Center for Alzheimer\u2019s Disease Research at UCLA, and the principal investigator on the clinical trial. \u201cWe used it in this study for Alzheimer\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/patients\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">patients<\/a> who had evidence of silent <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/epileptic+activity\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">epileptic activity<\/a>, which is seizure-like brain activity without the associated physical convulsions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alzheimer\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/disease\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">disease<\/a> (AD) is the leading cause of dementia worldwide. Early symptoms include short-term memory loss, decline in problem solving, word-finding difficulties, and trouble with spatial navigation. Among Alzheimer\u2019s patients, an estimated 10\u201322% develop seizures, while an additional 22\u201354% exhibit silent epileptic activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An inexpensive anti-seizure medication markedly improves learning and memory and other cognitive functions in Alzheimer\u2019s patients who have epileptic activity in their brains, according to a study published in the Sept. 27th issue of JAMA Neurology. \u201cThis is a drug that\u2019s used for epilepsy,\u201d says Keith Vossel, MD, MSc, director of the Mary S. Easton [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}