Acknowledgement
The authors are grateful to Dr GS Bell for her helpful comments and review of the manuscript.
Financial & competing interests disclosure
Josemir W Sander has received research grants, honoraria and travel support from various pharmaceutical companies that are involved in the manufacturing of antiepileptic drugs including Union Chimique Belge (UCB), Eisai, Janssen-Cilag and GlaxoSmithKline. Aidan Neligan has received travel grants and honoraria from Eisai and Janssen-Cilag. This work was undertaken at UCLH/UCL, which received a proportion of funding from the Department of Health’s NIHR Biomedical Research Centres funding scheme. The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.
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