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ReviewPediatric neurology2026

Counseling Reproductive-Age Youth With Epilepsy: Literature Review and Expert Opinion From the Epilepsy in the Child-Bearing Ages Through Menopause Consortium.

Marie E Clements, Christina Briscoe, Angela M Curcio, Laurie M Douglass, Janani Kassiri, Lynn C Liu, Sally V Mathias, Debra T Moore-Hill, Deepthi Nalluri, Audrey Nath and 13 more

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Review in Pediatric neurology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

23 authors.

Marie E ClementsDivision of Child Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Norton Children's Neuroscience Institute, Louisville, Kentucky.
Christina BriscoeDepartment of Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Angela M CurcioComprehensive Epilepsy Center, Department of Neurology, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, New York. Electronic address: angela.curcio@nyulangone.org.
Laurie M DouglassDepartments of Pediatrics and Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
Janani KassiriDivision of Pediatric Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta & Stollery Children's Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Lynn C LiuDepartment of Neurology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Sally V MathiasDepartment of Neurology, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky.
Debra T Moore-HillDepartment of Neurology, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia.
Deepthi NalluriEpilepsy Centers of Excellence, Richmond VA Medical Center, Richmond, Virginia.
Audrey NathDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas.
Amanda M RomeuPediatric Neurology, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia.
Tahniat SyedDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Victoria VinarskyDivision of Epilepsy and Neurophysiology, Department of Neurology, George Washington University and Children's National Hospital, Washington, District of Columbia.
Susan WienerDivision of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry, Rochester, New York.
Qian-Zhou JoJo YangDepartment of Neurology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Sarah J BetstadtDepartment of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry, Rochester, New York.
Elizabeth I HarrisonDepartment of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Neil KulkarniDivision of Child Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio.
Preeti PuntambekarDepartment of Neurology, Westchester Medical Center Health Network, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York.
Debopam SamantaChild Neurology Division, Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas.
Laveena SinglaDepartment of Neurology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi.
P Emanuela VoinescuDivision of Epilepsy, Division of Women's Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Mass General Brigham, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Laura KirkpatrickDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Electronic address: laura.kirkpatrick2@chp.edu.

Funding

Child Neurologist Career Development Program (CNCDP)K12NS098482 · NINDS · HUGO W. MOSER RES INST KENNEDY KRIEGER · PI SCHLAGGAR, BRADLEY L · 2016 to 2025
$26.2M
NICHD NIH HHS L40 HD113008NINDS NIH HHS K12 NS098482
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Epilepsy in the Child-Bearing Ages through Menopause is an international consortium of clinicians dedicated to improving the health of women with epilepsy across the lifespan. Epilepsy in the Child-Bearing Ages through Menopause's Adolescent and Young Adult Committee addresses quality of care for female youth with epilepsy. The Committee developed a literature review and expert opinion guidance for child neurologists on performing optimal counseling about epilepsy and reproductive health for female youth with epilepsy. To do so, we identified and voted on key topics essential for this counseling, then conducted comprehensive literature reviews for each topic, iteratively developed key statements about counseling content and style for each topic and voted on final content for inclusion. The included topics were teratogenesis, folic acid supplementation, pregnancy and fertility, contraception, heritability of epilepsy, menstrual and hormonal disorders, catamenial epilepsy, and taking a sexual history. This review provides a clear, novel framework for pediatric neurologists to counsel adolescent and young adult women with epilepsy about their reproductive health, supporting improvement in practices recommended by professional organization such as the American Academy of Neurology and Child Neurology Foundation.

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CounselingEpilepsyMenopauseReproductive HealthAdolescentFemaleHumansPregnancyYoung AdultAdolescentAdolescent healthEpilepsyReproductive health

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PMID41297128
PMCPMC12965338

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