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A NEW WAVE OF DRUGS FOR EPILEPSY
Washington. After a 15-year lull in new medications to control seizures, the treatment of epilepsy is entering a possible renaissance with the imminent approval of a new way of anti-convulsant drugs.
The new types of drugs appear to control brain seizure through mechanisms different from those found in commonly used anticonvulsants and may pose less of a risk of adverse side effects, scientists say.
In addition, researchers say, some of the new drugs nearing approval by the US Food and Drug Administration, or currently undergoing human trials are the first "designer drugs", compounds developed specifically to influence biochemical processes in the brain, aimed at controlling epilepsy.
"It is a very exciting period", said Dr Do Leppik, research director for the University of Minnnesota's Comprehensive Epilepsy Program in Minneapolis. "I can see an exponential growth in terms of finding chemicals and molecules that will work against specific aspects of epilepsy, and we certainly will have a lot of new chemical agents to try in the next decade".
Epilepsy, the most common chronic neurological disorder, is not a disease but a combination of conditions resulting from damage to groups of cells in brain. The condition may result from an oxygen shortage during labor or delivery, or from another trauma, such as head injury, brain tumor, infection, poisoning, stroke or high fever.
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1) There has never been a lull in new medications to control epilepsy.
2) A new way of anticonvulsant therapy is supposed to be approved.
3) The new types of anticonvulsant drugs control brain seizures through mechanisms different from those found in commonly used drugs.
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