Orexigen reports positive phase II results for Excalia Combination-Therapy to treat obesity
...e reuptake inhibitor, plus zonisamide, an approved anticonvulsant medication. OREXIGEN's preclinical research suggests that combining these two central nervous system drugs acts on a complex of neurons in the hypothalamus, the area of the brain contributing to the regulation of appetite, energy output and maintaini...Common anti-convulsant drug may help slow the progression of dementia
Researchers have found that a common anticonvulsant drug improved cognitive function and appeared to restore nerve cells in the brains of patients with HIV-related dementia. The results of the Phase I clinical trial are published in the March issue of the scientific journal Neurology. The University ...Ketogenic diet prevents seizures by enhancing brain energy production, increasing neuron stability
...w cause a change in metabolism leading to a potent anticonvulsant effect. According to some animal studies they als...eks, in contrast to rats treated with conventional anticonvulsant drugs. On the cellular level, they found that the anticonvulsant effect of the ketogenic diet did n...Study finds anticonvulsant drug poses greater birth-defect risk than suspected
Use of the anticonvulsant drug valproate during pregnancy may pose a signifi...96 and has enrolled more than 4,000 women who took anticonvulsant drugs during pregnancy. The current study analyzed information from 149 women who took only valproa...UNC findings may help explain cause of most common movement disorder
...ymptoms of essential tremor in humans, such as the anticonvulsant primidone and the beta-blocker propranolol, also had partial alleviating effects in the mutant mice. "The work by the Morrow group clearly implicates the GABA system in human essential tremor," said Dr. Kirk Wilhelmsen, associate professor of genetic...