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Lookup NU author(s): Professor Heinz Grunze
Anticonvulsant drugs are widely used in psychiatric indications. This includes alcohol and benzodiazepine withdrawal symptoms, panic and anxiety disorders, dementia, schizophrenia, and to some extent personality disorders. Besides pain syndromes, their main domain outside epilepsy, however, is bipolar disorder. Carbamazepine, valproate, and lamotrigine are meanwhile recognized mood stabilizers, but several other antiepileptic drugs have also been tried out with diverging or inconclusive results. Understanding the mechanisms of action and identifying similarities between anticonvulsants effective in bipolar disorder may also enhance our understanding of the underlying pathophysiology of the disorder.
Author(s): Grunze HCR
Publication type: Review
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Mental Health
Year: 2010
Volume: 19
Issue: 2
Pages: 127-141
Print publication date: 01/04/2010
ISSN (print): 0963-8237
ISSN (electronic): 1360-0567
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/09638230903469186
DOI: 10.3109/09638230903469186