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New antiepileptic drugs: comparative studies of efficacy and cognition
Steven L Weinstein1, Joan Conry
1Department of Neurology, Children's National Health Center, 111 Michigan Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20010, USA. sweinste@cnmc.org
Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports
|March 20, 2002
Abstract:
Over the past 10 years, the Food and Drug Administration has approved eight prophylactic antiepileptic drugs (AEDs). Although the goal of universal seizure control without side effects has not been reached, the tolerability of medications has improved. This paper reviews the AEDs introduced since 1993 and tries to objectively present comparative data obtained in double-blind studies.