Carbamazepine
Carbamazepine is an anticonvulsant and mood stabilizing drug used primarily in the treatment of some forms of epilepsy and bipolar disorder, as well as being used as a pain killer to relieve the intermittent severe pain caused by damage to the cranial nerves (trigeminal neuralgia). It is also used off-label for... [Read more]
Clonazepam
Clonazepam is a benzodiazepine derivative with highly potent anticonvulsant, muscle relaxant, and anxiolytic properties and is used mainly for the treatment of anxiety and insomnia. However, its main use is as an anticonvulsant in the treatment of Epileptic fits. Being a benzodiazepine, It is particularly useful... [Read more]
Diazepam
Diazepam is another drug that’s been around for quite some time and is commonly used for treating anxiety, insomnia, seizures, muscle spasms and alcohol withdrawal. Diazepam is one of the more widely known anti-anxiety drugs, not only by the medical profession, but the general public at large. It belongs... [Read more]
Ethosuximide
Ethosuximide has been around for some years and belongs to a group of drugs known as anticonvulsants, and is used to treat epilepsy. Commonly prescribed for the long-term prevention of absence seizures (petit mal), , it is also suitable to treat myoclonic seizures. Other forms of epilepsy do not respond well to... [Read more]
Gabapentin
Gabapentin is an anti-epileptic drug introduced in the early 1990′s. It is used to treat partial seizures and is often prescribed with other drugs when the epilepsy is not being fully controlled with the one drug used. Gabapentin is frequently used to treat various types of Neuralgia. as well as being widely... [Read more]
Lamotrigine
Lamotrigine (pronounced /ləˈmɪktəl/) is used either alone or in combination with other anticonvulsants, for the treatment of epilepsy and bipolar disorder. For epilepsy it is used to treat partial seizures, primary and secondary tonic-clonic seizures, and seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome.... [Read more]
Phenobarbital
Phenobarbital (pronouced fee-noe-bar-bih-tal) first marketed as Luminal belongs to a group of drugs known as barbiturates. It has been around now for about 60/70 years and is still commonly used to treat neonatal seizures. It also has sedative and hypnotic properties, but as with other barbiturates, it has been... [Read more]
Phenytoin
Phenytoin/Fosphenytoin is widely prescribed for the long term treatment of epilepsy, including tonic/clonic and temporal lobe epilepsy. Phenytoin goes back as far as the 1930s and works by reducing abnormal electrical discharges within the brain. other treatments for this particular drug include migraine, and... [Read more]
