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AEDs or no AEDs during pregnancy? That is the question
  1. Richard F M Chin1,2
  1. 1 Muir Maxwell Epilepsy Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
  2. 2 Department of Paediatric Neurosciences, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Richard F M Chin, Muir Maxwell Epilepsy Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9YL, UK; rchin{at}staffmail.ed.ac.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp-2017-317924

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    • Funding This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

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