carbamazepine bipolar disorder
Why are anticonvulsants sodium valproate, carbamazepine, lamotrigine, and is used to treat bipolar disorder?
Give me your own answer or a clinical textbook. No Wikipedia or links. I am a medical student. I'm insulted.
I hope you appreciate any attempt to answer you get instead of being "insulted" by someone trying to help. As a medical student, you must realize there is much more now that we know about medicine than we do. For example, although we have often found lithium to be an excellent treatment of bipolar and we have very little information on their method current stock. Even if you get an answer now, can be refuted even within a few years. Also, if you are really looking for accuracy you can not trust the books either, because its content is as potentially unreliable as the web, only in an older format. Usually only Articles peer-reviewed journals (often available as links) can be considered reliable. However, my attempt at an answer: Seizures are caused by a cascade stimulation in the brain as increasing amounts of the excitatory neurotransmitters are released. Antiepileptic drugs work by blocking the repeated release of these neurotransmitters, especially glutamate. This can be achieved by several mechanisms, including limiting the number of sodium channels in a membrance that can open, reducing the frequency with which the neuron can stabilize and keep shooting. This effect is useful for the treatment of bipolar disorder, especially mania aspect hyperactivity, and may also serve as a buffer to maintain the activation of neurons at a moderate pace at all times, with the postsynaptic neuron development and increased tolerance receptor sensitivity.
