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Anticonvulsant medication

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Anticonvulsant medication
A drug used to prevent convulsions or seizures; often prescribed in the treatment of epilepsy. Several anticonvulsant medications have been found effective in the treatment of bipolar disorder.
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If a patient with a seizure disorder has been treated and their anticonvulsant medication dose lowered for ECT, increasing the anticonvulsant medication to pre-ECT doses can be done after the ECT series is complete.
Several attempts were made to wean the thiopentone while controlling the seizures with anticonvulsant medications in various combinations.
Topiramate is an anticonvulsant medication used either as monotherapy or adjuvant therapy for the treatment of partial seizures and as adjuvant therapy for the treatment of generalized tonic-clonic seizures.
 
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