Anticonvulsant drugs 1 taken by pregnant women to prevent seizures are among the most common causes of potential harm to the fetus. In the 1970s and 1980s, the anticonvulsant drugs used most ...

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 ...

Background Anticonvulsants have been used to manage psychiatric conditions for over 50 years. It is recognised that some, particularly valproate, carbamazepine and lamotrigine, are human ...

BACKGROUND: The use of anticonvulsants (e.g., gabapentin, pregabalin) to treat low back pain has increased substantially in recent years despite limited supporting evidence. We aimed to determine the ...

Use of certain anticonvulsant medications may be associated with increased risk of suicide Date: May 10, 2010 Source: JAMA and Archives Journals Summary: An analysis of prescription and clinical ...

Anticonvulsant drugs are increasingly being used to treat low back pain, but a new study finds they are ineffective and can have adverse effects. Anticonvulsant drugs are increasingly being used ...

See About archive blog posts. Two years ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration published information showing that people taking anticonvulsant medications, drugs used to treat epilepsy ...

Other anticonvulsants are less well-established for treating mood symptoms in bipolar disorder, and some -- such as Lyrica, Neurontin, or Topamax-- are also used "off label" for other types of ...

The primary outcome was absence of clinically evident seizures and improvement in the level of consciousness by 60 minutes after the start of drug infusion, without additional anticonvulsant ...

Among adults who initiated an anticonvulsant mood stabilizer, treatment with valproate was tied with a 1.17% higher adjusted risk difference for developing T2D over 5 years compared with ...