Topiramate increases cerebral GABA in healthy humans

Neurology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 627-629

  Kuzniecky, Ruben ^a,b   Hetherington, H ^a   Ho, S ^a   Pan, J ^a   Martin, R ^a   Gilliam, F ^a   Hugg, J ^a   Faught, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; TOPIRAMATE;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID BRAIN LEVEL; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031754191     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.51.2.627     Document Type: Article

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