Cross-sensitivity of psychiatric and behavioral side effects with antiepileptic drug use
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Cognitive side effects of antiepileptic drugs.
All of the established antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) can produce cognitive side effects, which are increased with polypharmacy and with increasing dosage and anticonvulsant blood levels. However, cognitive side effects are usually modest for AED monotherapy with anticonvulsant blood levels within the standard therapeutic ranges. Further, these effects are offset in part by reduced seizure activity...
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عنوان ژورنال: Seizure
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1059-1311
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2018.09.014