Lamotrigine also known as Lamictal Drugs is an anti-seizure medication available with your local pharmacist. It helps to control some types of seizures in the treatment of epilepsy. Epilepsy is a neurological condition, which affects your nervous system. Epilepsy is a...

Epilepsy is a known neurological condition, which directly hampers your nervous system. In other words it is also known as seizure disorder. A person suffering from epilepsy can only be treated if he had minimum of two seizures, not caused by any known medical conditi...

What is Epilepsy? Epilepsy is a known neurological condition, which directly hampers your nervous system. It is also commonly known as seizure disorder. A person suffering from epilepsy can only be treated if he had minimum of two seizures, not caused by any known medic...

Bipolar disorder treatment is not new. Men of medicine were treating for it before they even knew what it was. Yet every year new medications and methodologies are added to the bipolar disorder treatment. Although first recognized in the second century A.D., ...

Bipolar disorder is a psychiatric condition defined as recurrent episodes of significant disturbance in mood. These disturbances can occur on a spectrum that ranges from debilitating depression to unbridled mania. Individuals suffering from bipolar disorder typically ...

Temporal lobe seizure is the most frequent cause of partial seizures and aura. During a temporal lobe seizure, you may smack your lips, swallow repeatedly or pick at things with your fingers. Such activities are called automatisms. The temporal lobe is located close t...

Generic Meridia beats down your appetite and is widely used in combination with your dietary plan to reduce weight. When used along with a low calorie diet plan, can reduce weight at faster pace. Sibutramine is the generic name of meridia. How does Generic Meridia wor...

Lamictal, or lamotrigine, is an anti-seizure medication that has been prescribed to treat epileptic seizures for about 10 years. In addition to its mood stabilizing effects, Lamictal has antidepressant effects as well that have been prescribed for bipolar or manic dep...

Bipolar disorder is a mental illness requiring prolonged treatment. People with this disorder experience extreme emotional highs (mania) and lows (depression.) Numerous advancements in bipolar disorder treatments have been made over the past few decades.Physicians, ho...

Manic Depressive Illness, also known as Bipolar Disorder, is not something that you experience once and then snap out of. It is with you all your life, can make your life an emotional roller coaster of hell, and is something you have to learn to live with.As human bei...

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Depression is normally a health problem that no one would want to come across in there lifetime. However, this condition is among the challenges that people cannot easily run away from. For this reason, depression medication had to be found so that patients could easi...

Adjuvant Analgesics (co-analgesics)Adjuvant analgesics are drugs that are used primarily for treating conditions other than pain, but may be analgesic or assist in decreasing patients' perception of pain in certain circumstances. Adjuvant analgesics may be used alone ...

These include newer medications chiefly the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) the tricyclics, and the monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs). The SSRIs and other newer medications that affect neurotransmitters such as dopamine or norepinephrine generally h...

Intermittent explosive disorder (IED) is a behavioral disorder characterized by extreme expressions of anger, often to the point of uncontrollable rage, that are disproportionate to the situation at hand. IED is marked by several discrete episodes of failure to resis...

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Bipolar 1. having two poles or pertaining to both poles. 2. describing neurons that have processes at both ends. 3. pertaining to mood disorders in which both depressive episodes and manic or hypomanic episodes occur.bi·po·lar  DisorderThere is a tendency ...

As many as 80 percent of nursing home residents live with chronic pain, much of it unrecognized and untreated. Despite increased focus on pain identification and treatment the past few years, many care facilities still struggle to establish pain management programs. ...

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The field of rehabilitation medicine is one that has been recognised as a specialist field in Western society for many decades. Formal neurorehabilitation following an insult to the central nervous system that results in significant disability is essential, not o...

Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder of unknown etiology. Recent reports suggest that a number of environmental factors during prenatal development may be associated with schizophrenia. We tested the hypothesis that environmental lead exposure may be associate...

Section on Cardiology *N-Terminal Pro-BNP Levels in Patients with Congestive Heart Failure and Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator or Biventricular Pacemaker-Defibrillator Therapies. Fabian Arnaldo, MD, Nikolaos Anatoliotakis, MD, David Nabert, MD, Steve...

Generic Equivalent to GlaxoSmithKline's Lamictal[R] Tablets, 25 mg, 100 mg, 150 mg and 200 mg HAWTHORNE, N.Y. -- Taro Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. ("Taro," the "Company," Pink Sheets: TAROF) reported today that it has received tentative approval from the U.S...

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ABSTRACT Bipolar affective disorder (BD) is a chronic and often debilitating condition affecting 1% to 2% of the general population. Although BD affects a small population, it is likely that a dental hygienist will encounter individuals suffering from BD somet...

JERUSALEM -- Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Nasdaq: TEVA) announced today that it has commenced commercial shipment of its generic version of Lamictal[R] (Lamotrigine) Tablets, 25mg, 100 mg, 150 mg, and 200 mg. Teva's Lamotrigine tablets are the AB-rated...

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LOS ANGELES -- Adjunctive therapy with lamotrigine significantly reduced the number of primary generalized tonic-clonic seizures in children and adolescents in whom such seizures are inadequately controlled with other antiepileptic drugs alone, judging from finding...

SAN DIEGO -- Since lamotrigine gained approval as maintenance therapy for bipolar disorder, more physicians are using it off label to treat bipolar depression, Andrew J. Cutler, M.D., said. ...

Background: About 50 persons in 100,000 have epilepsy. In 30 to 40 percent of cases, seizures are generalized. This form of epilepsy usually begins at an early age and has a genetic predisposition, but it does not have obvious causative factors. Valproate (Depacon) cu...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved lamotrigine (Lamictal) for the long-term maintenance treatment of adults with bipolar I disorder to delay the time to occurrence of mood episodes (depression, mania, hypomania, mixed episodes) in patients treated for ...

The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) has released evidence-based guidelines for prescribing new antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) in patients with new-onset epilepsy and refractory epilepsy. The recommendations, "Efficacy and Tolerability of the New Antiepileptic Dru...

ORLANDO, FLA. -- Among the most troubling noncognitive effects of antiepilepsy drugs in children are those affecting weight, skin, hair, and gums, Dr. Wendy G. Mitchell said at the annual meeting of the American Epilepsy Society. ...

Several new antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) are effective in treating selected patients with partial or mixed seizure disorders, but evidence for their efficacy in patients with generalized epilepsy syndromes is lacking, according to a meta-analysis by the American Academy...

Up to one quarter of children diagnosed with epilepsy are refractory to treatment with traditional antiepileptic drugs (AEDs). Once appropriate classification of the seizure disorder has been accomplished, an AED should be selected based on efficacy, side effect profi...

Strength of Recommendations Key clinical recommendation Label References Tricyclic antidepressants may be used for A 5, 8, 11, 21 treatment of chronic neuropathic and non-neuropathic pain syndromes. Tricyclic antidepressants are more ...

Temporal Lobe Seizure - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment Methods Temporal lobe seizure is the most frequent cause of partial seizures and aura. During a temporal lobe seizure, you may smack your lips, swallow repeatedly or pick at things with your fingers. ...