Anticonvulsant

Shaylee Sigler Professor Dahl English 2 The Imperfect Science of Diagnosing and Treating Bipolar Disorder "Importance of Individuality" Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, is a life long and potentially fatal illness caused by mood swings of depressive and manic episodes. Bipolar disorder, if not properly treated, could interfere with relationships, a career or school performance, and is the cause in every 1 of 5 suicide deaths. Physicians, as well as the patients

syndrome known as hypersensitivity reactions. More than 50 drugs that caused the notification is made DRESS syndrome. DRESS syndrome is more common in adults and rarely seen in children. Aromatic anticonvulsants, allopurinol, and sulfonamides are the main drugs that cause the most common. Anticonvulsants and sulfonamides for the drug that causes frequent 1000-10000 drug exposure is estimated that developed DRESS syndrome (1.13). Fever, rash, lymphadenopathy and internal organ involvement with progresses

Bipolar Disorder Bipolar disorder (BPD) is known to be a serious mental condition. Bipolar disorder is also classified as manic-depressive disorder. It is characterized as malfunction with the brain by mood changes that includes a persistent increasing activity or energy levels. This serious condition is first diagnosed in young adults or adolescence. Diagnosis Bipolar disease is first diagnosed in young adulthood or adolescence. Diagnosis is said to be obvious, when the patient is showing florid

Use and abuse of Benzodiazepines Introduction Sedative-hypnotics, including benzodiazepines, are a group of drugs used to treat the symptoms of anxiety, panic disorders, and insomnia. Benzodiazepines are one of the most prescribed drugs which have abuse potential. There must be special attention toward the patient's addiction history before these agents are prescribed. An understanding of the toxicity and side effects of benzodiazepines, abuse patterns and alternative anxiolytic and hypnotic agents

before one is found that works best for the person. Professionals like to use mood stabilizers and anticonvulsants to treat bipolar disorder. Lithium (also known as Eskalith or Lithobid) is used as a mood stabilizer. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the drug for treatment in the mid 70’s for use in fighting of both manic and depressive episodes (NIMH · Home, 2015). Anticonvulsants include Lamotrigine (Lamictal), gabapentin (Neurontin), topiramate (Topamax), and oxcarbazepine (Trileptal)

In the study patients age 20 to 64 that is diagnosed with depression and on antidepressants was used to observe the possibility of antidepressants causing epilepsy. The data does show some links between antidepressant use and epilepsy, even though it is inconsistent and non-decisive. Cox proportional hazards were used to analyze the first recorded diagnosis of epilepsy for the study. Patients were picked from the QResearch primary care database. There was a total of 238,963 patients from 687 UK practices

Treatment of bipolar disorder have been sufficiently rapid that even moderately recent efforts to summarize that Lithium is only remaining important treatment option of acute mania. Moreover, Lithium is combined with anticonvulsant, which are not generally effective for acute mania. It may have utility and some sort of helpfulness for other aspects of this illness, and comorbid negative health conditions such as topiramate for obesity, eating disorder, migraine prevention

Seizures There are many chronic conditions that can affect people today with one such condition being epilepsy. This disease does not only affect a person physiologically but also affects how they interact with others, perform activities of daily living and the basic needs of a person, such as, driving or maintaining a job. The overall affects of this tragic and chronic disease is it can negatively affect a person’s confidence and therefore affect their basic life choices. Within this paper there

Bipolar disorder What is bipolar disorder? Bipolar disorder is a psychiatric condition characterized by episodes of mania, hypomania, or depression. The condition is most commonly seen in individuals age 18-20. Depression is typically the mood at onset of the disorder. Major depression is characterized by low mood, impaired sleep, changes in appetite, weight changes, low, energy, and abnormal concentration. Mania is normally described as episodes of heightened or elevated mood, grandiose thoughts

excessive glutamate release has been observed during seizure activity. (Zaccara et al., 2013) studies Suggest that reducing the overstimulation of AMPA receptors via AMPA receptor antagonism can have an anticonvulsant effect and inhibit seizure generation and spread. In addition to their anticonvulsant effects, AMPA receptor antagonists could play an important neuroprotective role by preventing neuronal death and could elicit an anti-epileptogenic effect (Franco et al.,