Anticonvulsants are a class of medications that have received considerable interest as possible treatments in patients with behavioural disturbances in dementia. The role of these medications for such a use remains controversial. The current paper reviews the published evidence surrounding the safety and efficacy (i.e. as a behavioural and cognitive treatment) of newer anticonvulsants in patien...

We present a case report of 23-year old male with newly diagnosed epilepsy manifested generalized tonic seizures. Levetiracetam (LEV) was started and the patient seizure free. The demonstrated intermediate chronotype determined by Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire (MEQ). There no epileptiform activity on electroencephalography (EEG) polysomnography (PSG), sleep architecture disturbances (PS...

We assessed the clinical characteristics and efficacy of neurotransmitters and levetiracetam in a patient with hyperphenylalaninemia due to dihydropteridine reductase (DHPR) deficiency who developed epileptic seizures. A boy with DHPR deficiency, who had been successfully treated with tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4), levodopa, and 5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP) since he was 2 months old, started having ...

OBJECTIVE The widely prescribed anticonvulsants phenytoin and carbamazepine are potent inducers of cytochrome P450 enzymes, which are involved in cholesterol synthesis. We sought to determine whether these drugs have an effect on cholesterol and other serological markers of vascular risk. METHODS We recruited 34 epilepsy patients taking carbamazepine or phenytoin in monotherapy whose physicia...