Editor’s note: This story first appeared on SN Online April 15. Science News is reposting it as a way to communicate that, based on this study and other research, the American Association of Neurology and the American Epilepsy Society decided on April 27 to recommend that women who have epilepsy avoid taking valproate during pregnancy.
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