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Topiramate: uses in people with an intellectual disability who have epilepsy

Kerr, Michael Patrick 1998. Topiramate: uses in people with an intellectual disability who have epilepsy. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research 42 (1) , pp. 74-79.

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Abstract

The novel anticonvulsant topiramate has been shown to have efficacy across a range of seizure types including both generalized and partial seizures in several well-designed randomized controlled trials. It has also been shown to be effective in atonic seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. Tolerability data show a tendency to neuropsychiatric side-effects, such as confusion and word finding difficulties, when topiramate is used in polytherapy; these side-effects are reduced in monotherapy usage. The efficacy and spectrum of seizures treated by topiramate suggests that it has an important role in managing epilepsy in people with intellectual disability. The predictable side-effects can be monitored in clinical practice and possibly reduced by slow dose increments. The data set of patients with intellectual disability is still too small to rule out idiosyncratic drug reaction.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Medicine
MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG)
Subjects: R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
ISSN: 0964-2633
Last Modified: 04 Jun 2017 08:37
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/81530

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