For children and adolescents with absence seizures, there was little or no evidence of a difference in outcomes between ethosuximide and valproate. However, lamotrigine was less effective than other treatments; fewer ...

Reviewers assessed the incidence of congenital malformations in children associated with levetiracetam versus carbamazepine, gabapentin, lamotrigine, oxycarbazepine, phenobarbital, phenytoin, topiramate, zonisamide, and ...

Background: Evidence for the comparative teratogenic risk of antiepileptic drugs is insufficient, particularly in relation to the dosage used. Therefore, we aimed to compare the occurrence of major congenital malformations ...

Objective: The authors examined the efficacy of valproate to reduce relapse to heavy drinking among veterans with alcohol use disorder (AUD) and neuropsychiatric comorbidities and whether antecedent traumatic brain injury ...

For adults with acute mania, the effects of lithium compared with different mood stabilizers were mixed, and although differences were noted, few reached statistical significance. The comparative adverse effect pattern ...