Two mood drugs combat virus implicated in birth defects

Wednesday, September 21, 2016 - 11:31 in Health & Medicine

Two mood-stabilizing drugs provide protection against a potentially dangerous virus implicated in birth defects as well as disease in people with compromised immune systems, Yale School of Medicine researchers have found. The related drugs, valnoctamide and valpromide, are approved for treatment of neurologic and psychiatric brain disorders such as epilepsy and bipolar disorder; both inhibit […]

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