anticonvulsants
antiepileptic drugs
antiseizure drugs

Anticonvulsants are sometimes used to treat low back pain, even though there isn't strong evidence that they help.

Some general findings about the use of anticonvulsants are outlined below.

While anticonvulsants help relieve symptoms in some people, they have no effect on others.

Experts do not know exactly how anticonvulsants work to reduce chronic pain.

Keep in mind that not all anticonvulsants will help.

Certain members of this class are used as anticonvulsants.

You want to send old people out without anticonvulsants?

Three other anticonvulsants are used in the treatment of bipolar disorder.

When anticonvulsants are used to control cancer pain, they may be given in small amounts to limit side effects.

Some patients, however, require polypharmacy, the use of two or more anticonvulsants.

Anticonvulsants, if administered, should be continued at least through acute therapy.

In children, anticonvulsants may be ineffective for both early and late seizures.

All four were structurally distinct both from other anticonvulsants already on the market.

Women taking anticonvulsants need to talk with their health professionals if they are considering becoming pregnant.

Also, anticonvulsants can interact with other drugs - even aspirin - to cause serious problems.

Anticonvulsants offer more treatment options for those with bipolar disorder.

Anticonvulsants as a group however are known to cause tolerance to the anti-seizure effect.

By 1994, primidone was no longer one of the most widely used anticonvulsants.

The dose of other anticonvulsants may have to be reduced (possibly up to 50%).

They may be used in combination with mood stabilizers and anticonvulsants.

These medicines, which are also called anticonvulsants, have been used for some time to treat seizures.

At first, anticonvulsants were prescribed only for people who did not respond to lithium.

Anticonvulsants may be prescribed to reduce or halt any seizures.

Some of their derivatives, the oxazolidinediones, are used as anticonvulsants.

Carbamazepine is in a group of drugs called anticonvulsants.

Many believe that patients might benefit from prevention with antiepileptic drugs.

Several antiepileptic drugs have multiple or uncertain mechanisms of action.

It does not replace the need for antiepileptic drugs.

Most antiepileptic drugs have been associated with a statistical significance increase in suicide.

This is not true of other antiepileptic drugs.

Other antiepileptic drugs may therefore be preferred for the long term management of epilepsy.

Treatment with antiepileptic drugs can sometimes reduce seizures.

The following antiepileptic drugs are required to add warnings about the risk of suicidality:

Skin rash, a very common side effect of antiepileptic drugs, is less common with valproate.

Registry of women who are taking antiepileptic drugs and who are pregnant.

Vitamin E status in pediatric patients receiving antiepileptic drugs.

There is also interest in finding more antiepileptic drugs, with the potential to interfere with epileptogenesis.

Oxcarbazepine is in a group of drugs called anticonvulsants, or antiepileptic drugs.

Mechanism for reduction of serum folate by antiepileptic drugs during prolonged therapy.

Zinc concentrations in leucocytes of patients receiving antiepileptic drugs.

Lamotrigine is a member of the sodium channel blocking class of antiepileptic drugs.

Like other antiepileptic drugs, Onfi may increase the risk of suicidal thoughts or behaviors in a very small number of people taking the drug.

If treatment is warranted or preferred by the child and his or her family, antiepileptic drugs can usually control the seizures easily.

Antiepileptic drugs function to help reduce this area of irritability and thus prevent epileptiform seizures.

Conventional antiepileptic drugs block sodium channels or enhance g-aminobutyric acid function.

Jeavons syndrome is a lifelong disorder, even if seizures are well controlled with antiepileptic drugs.

This difference was about one additional case of suicidal thoughts or behaviors for every 500 patients treated with antiepileptic drugs instead of placebo.

Therapeutics in pediatric epilepsy, part 1: The new antiepileptic drugs and the ketogenic diet.

Taking antiepileptic drugs when you do not have epilepsy may not stop you from having seizures.

Topiramate may be used alone or in combination with other antiepileptic drugs to control partial seizures in children.

Other antidepressants and some antiseizure drugs may be used for severe cases.

And it is almost never a good idea to change antiseizure drugs during pregnancy because the new drug may not control seizures as well.

Other names used are anticonvulsants or antiseizure drugs.

Could my antiseizure drugs harm my baby?

Some antiseizure drugs may affect the hormone levels in your ovaries, which can affect reproductive functioning.

Lithium possesses a very important antisuicidal effect not shown in other stabilizing medications such as antiseizure drugs.

Like all antiseizure drugs, Horizant will carry a warning about the risk that it may cause suicidal thoughts and actions in a small number of people.

Along with the Risperdal, he eventually went on Depakote, one of several antiseizure drugs that are also used as mood stabilizers.

Gabapentin belongs to a class of drugs known as antiseizure drugs (also called anticonvulsant or antiepileptic drugs).

She returned home within a day cleared of any serious disorder, she said, but was sent for counseling and help in breaking an addiction to antiseizure drugs.

As many as one in 200 pregnant women take antiseizure drugs for epilepsy and, increasingly, for other conditions like migraines and bipolar disorder.

However, other, newer antiseizure drugs - including Tegritol and Depakote - are used in the treatment of depression and some other psychiatric illnesses.

Anticonvulsants are more accurately called antiepileptic drugs (abbreviated "AEDs"), and are sometimes referred to as antiseizure drugs.

Diazepam may be used during short periods of increased, repeated, or prolonged seizures (acute repetitive seizures) in people who are taking other antiseizure drugs for long-term treatment.

The risk of birth defects with the second-generation drugs that began appearing in the early 1990s is clearly much lower than for older antiseizure drugs like Depakote (valproic acid).

Neurological problems are the most common cause of serious medical incidents on airline flights, according to a Mayo Clinic survey published today that suggests the addition of antiseizure drugs to airplanes' medicine kits.

Even though an outside panel of experts confirmed the link between suicide and treatment of bipolar disorder with antiseizure drugs, the panel voted against putting a strong "black box" warning on the drugs' labels.

Most of the women in the new study who took an antiseizure drug took Lamictal (lamotrigine), and their birth defect risk was just slightly higher than women who took no antiseizure drugs.

This is known as bipolar depression and usually requires a different type of medication (perhaps lithium, or one of the antiseizure drugs, such as valproate) from unipolar depression (the type without the highs).

May 17, 2011 - Use of newer antiseizure drugs during the first trimester of pregnancy was not associated with an increased risk for major birth defects in one of the largest studies ever to examine the issue.

Gabapentin was originally approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1994, for use as an adjunctive medication to control partial seizures (effective when added to other antiseizure drugs).

It had some medical uses-vets used it as a mild stimulant, for example, and it was sometimes used in research, to cause convulsions in experiments for antiseizure drugs, and in the treatment of alcoholism.

Researchers have found that the disorders that lead to sleep-related violence can usually be treated effectively with one or more medications, including antiseizure drugs and tranquilizers, that "quiet" the overly active parts of the brain and help to prevent partial arousals during sleep.

Most of the standard antiseizure drugs are believed to work either by altering the release of charged particles that cause electrical currents to flow through the brain, or by increasing or decreasing the levels of brain chemicals called neurotransmitters that can help or inhibit the transmission of electrical signals.

Ribavirin in high doses and interferon alpha-2b were found to have some activity against WNV in vitro, but no controlled studies have been completed on the use of these or other medications, including steroids, antiseizure drugs, or osmotic agents, in the management of WNV encephalitis.