Why are anticonvulsants Sodium Valproate, Carbamazepine, and Lamotrigine used to treat Bipolar Disorder?
Give me your own answer or from a clinical textbook. No wikipedia or weblinks. I’m a med student. Don’t insult me. Best answer: Answer by timemutt I hope you appreciate any attempt at an answer you receive rather than being “insulted” by someone trying to help. As a med student, you should realize by now there’s much more we don’t know about medicine than we do know. For example, although we have found lithium often to be an excellent treatment for bipolar as well, we have very little information about its actual method of action. Even if you receive one answer now, it may be disproven within even a few years. Furthermore, if you’re truly looking for accuracy you can’t rely on books either, as their content potentially is just as unreliable as the web, only in an older format. Usually only articles from peer-reviewed journals (often available as “weblinks”) can be considered to be reliable. Nevertheless, my attempt at an answer: Seizures are caused by a cascade of overstimulation in th
