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Anticonvulsant drugs for migraine prophylaxis

BACKGROUND: Anticonvulsant drugs seem to be useful in clinical practice for the prophylaxis of migraine. This might be explained by a variety of actions of these drugs in the central nervous system that are probably relevant to the pathophysiology of…

Tags: 2004, Adult, Anticonvulsants/therapeutic use, Backlog, Chronicle E, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Humans, Journal Article, Migraine Disorders/prevention & control, Mulleners W, Randomized Controlled Trials

Practice parameter: pharmacological treatment of migraine headache in children and adolescents: report of the American Academy of Neurology Quality Standards Subcommittee and the Practice Committee of the Child Neurology Society

OBJECTIVE: To review evidence on the pharmacologic treatment of the child with migraine headache. METHODS: The authors reviewed, abstracted, and classified relevant literature. Recommendations were based on a four-tiered scheme of evidence…

Empirical evidence for the use of lithium and anticonvulsants in children with psychiatric disorders

BACKGROUND: The use of psychotropic medications-in particular, mood stabilizers--in youths with psychiatric illness has grown. There are trends toward polypharmacy and the increased use of newer mood stabilizers in youths with psychiatric illness…

Tuberous sclerosis--what's new?

2008

Tags: 2008, Anticonvulsants/therapeutic use, Archives of Disease in Childhood, Backlog, Disease Specific, Female, Genetic Counseling, Humans, Journal Article, Male, Merrifield J, Mutation/genetics, O'Callaghan FJ, Osborne JP, Treatment Outcome, Tuberous Sclerosis/complications/drug therapy/genetics

Prophylactic pharmacological treatment of chronic daily headache

OBJECTIVE: To review all the prophylactic pharmacological treatments for chronic daily headache from the past decade. BACKGROUND: Chronic daily headache is among the most common diagnoses seen in specialized headache centers. Prior to 1988, there…

Tags: 2000, Anticonvulsants/therapeutic use, Antidepressive Agents/contraindications/therapeutic use, Backlog, Chronic Disease, Headache, Headache Disorders/classification/drug therapy/etiology/prevention & control, Headache/diagnosis/drug therapy/etiology/prevention & control, Humans, Journal Article, Periodicity, Redillas C, Solomon S

Modes and patterns of self-mutilation in persons with Lesch-Nyhan disease

Lesch-Nyhan disease (LND) is a rare X-linked recessive genetic disorder associated with cognitive impairment, choreoathetosis, hyperuricemia, and the hallmark symptom of severe and involuntary self-mutilation. This study examines data gathered from a…

Sleep disorders in children with neurologic diseases

Pediatric neurologic diseases are often associated with different kinds of sleep disruption (mainly insomnia, less frequently hypersomnia or parasomnias). Due to the key-role of sleep for development, the effort to ameliorate sleep patterns in these…

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