Several anticonvulsant medications are recognized as mood stabilizers to treat or prevent mood episodes in bipolar disorder. At first, anticonvulsants were prescribed only for people who did not ...

Some anticonvulsant mood stabilizers may increase the risk for developing type 2 diabetes (T2D), an observational study indicated. Among adults who initiated an anticonvulsant mood stabilizer, ...

The anticonvulsant ezogabine (also known as retigabine) significantly reduced depressive symptoms, anhedonia, and increased resilience to stress in a small open-label study of patients with major ...

A new study, out today in the Journal of the American Medical Association, has found that pharmacy closures in communities around Colorado significantly impact patient access to anticonvulsant ...

The interaction between a chromosomal protein called HMGB1 and a cellular receptor called RAGE is known to trigger inflammation. Researchers have now used computer software to analyze structural ...

Researchers have identified the mechanism by which valproic acid controls epileptic seizures, and by doing so, also revealed an underlying factor of seizures. University of California, Irvine ...

Medically reviewed by Mary Choy, PharmD Key Takeaways Tegretol and Lamictal are prescription medications used to help control seizures in people with epilepsy.Lamictal is used to treat both seizures ...

The choice of drugs for patients with status epilepticus that is refractory to treatment with benzodiazepines has not been thoroughly studied. In a randomized, blinded, adaptive trial, we compared the ...

SAN DIEGO — Intravenous (IV) administration of the anticonvulsant fosphenytoin is effective as a fast-acting treatment for acute trigeminal neuralgia (TN) exacerbation, new research suggested. TN is a ...

Neuropeptide Y (NPY) is an endogenous peptide with powerful anticonvulsant properties. Its overexpression in the rat hippocampus, mediated by the local application of recombinant adeno-associated ...