Does melatonin affect epileptic seizures?

Drug Safety

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 207-215

  Jain, Siddharth ^a   Besag, Frank M C ^b  

^a BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Mid Beds Clinic ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOBAZAM; CLONAZEPAM; LAMOTRIGINE; MELATONIN; NITRAZEPAM; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PLACEBO; PRIMIDONE; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN;

ADD ON THERAPY; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BEDTIME DOSAGE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CRYPTOGENIC EPILEPSY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EVENING DOSAGE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MONOTHERAPY; MORNING DOSAGE; MULTIFOCAL EPILEPTIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP TIME; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; MELATONIN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SLEEP DISORDERS;

EID: 84876723859     PISSN: 01145916     EISSN: 11791942     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40264-013-0033-y     Document Type: Article

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