Anti-seizure medications, which are also called anticonvulsants or anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs), are medications used to prevent seizures for people who have epilepsy. All AEDs are available only ...

Learn how first-line antiepileptic drugs, personalized care, and lifestyle changes work together to manage generalized epilepsy effectively.

The combined frequency of anticonvulsant embryopathy was higher in 223 infants exposed to one anticonvulsant drug than in 508 control infants (20.6 percent vs. 8.5 percent; odds ratio, 2.8; 95 ...

It said two anticonvulsant drugs were increasingly being used in nursing homes, valproic acid, or valproate, which is known under the brand names Depakote and Depakene, ...

Previous studies have found that anticonvulsant drugs may themselves cause changes in mental functions. They may be often mixed with neurocognitive behavior, depending on the drug used.

July 3 (UPI) --Anticonvulsant drugs that are commonly prescribed to treat back pain are not effective and might be harmful, according to a new study.Researchers led by the University of Sydney ...

Anticonvulsant drugs, typically taken for epilepsy, are increasingly being used as mood stabilizers in people with bipolar disorder. Learn more from WebMD about breakthroughs in understanding how ...

In the intention-to-treat analysis, an absence of seizures and improvement in responsiveness without additional anticonvulsant medications at 60 minutes after trial-drug administration was found ...

Anticonvulsant medications are a primary therapeutic approach for patients with epilepsy, but labeled indications also include bipolar disorder, mania, neuralgia (sudden occurrences of short ...