Effects of lamotrigine monotherapy in patients with newly diagnosed juvenile myoclonic epilepsy: An open-label study

Current Therapeutic Research - Clinical and Experimental

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 230-237

  Schimschock, James R ^a   Hammer, Anne E ^b   Kustra, Robert P ^b   Messenheimer, John A ^b  

^a Child Neurology Clinic PC   (United States)

^b GIaxoSmithKline   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalized tonic clonic; Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy; Lamotrigine; Myoclonus; Seizure

Indexed keywords

LAMOTRIGINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; AMNESIA; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; APATHY; ARTHRALGIA; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMA; CONFUSION; CONTACT DERMATITIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIZZINESS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DYSPEPSIA; FEMALE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; MENTAL INSTABILITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; MYALGIA; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NAUSEA; NERVOUSNESS; OPEN STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHINITIS; SIDE EFFECT; SOMNOLENCE; TREMOR; VIRUS INFECTION; VOMITING; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 27944487887     PISSN: 0011393X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.curtheres.2005.06.004     Document Type: Article

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