{"title":"Drug arrows in the quiver-antiseizure, antiepileptic and neuroprotective medication: Treatment and future aspects. A focused review.","authors":"Elinor Ben-Menachem","doi":"10.1016/j.seizure.2024.11.016","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Drug discovery for the treatment of epilepsy is entering a new era especially with the advancement of genetic therapies as disease modifying, antiepileptogenic therapies. Even new ideas about re-purposed medication with purposed epileptogenic properties have been suggested. The possibilities are enormous, and it is encouraging that so many ideas are flourishing. The focus of this review is to discuss where to concentrate efforts to improve the lives of people with epilepsy (PWE) with medical treatment, especially the elderly who have many challenges besides just seizures. Thus, the arrow needs to be not only focused on DRE patients, but to try to redirect the arrow to prevent the development of seizures before onset as well as preventing refractoriness at the very beginning herald by the first seizures.</p>","PeriodicalId":49552,"journal":{"name":"Seizure-European Journal of Epilepsy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7000,"publicationDate":"2024-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Seizure-European Journal of Epilepsy","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seizure.2024.11.016","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"CLINICAL NEUROLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Drug discovery for the treatment of epilepsy is entering a new era especially with the advancement of genetic therapies as disease modifying, antiepileptogenic therapies. Even new ideas about re-purposed medication with purposed epileptogenic properties have been suggested. The possibilities are enormous, and it is encouraging that so many ideas are flourishing. The focus of this review is to discuss where to concentrate efforts to improve the lives of people with epilepsy (PWE) with medical treatment, especially the elderly who have many challenges besides just seizures. Thus, the arrow needs to be not only focused on DRE patients, but to try to redirect the arrow to prevent the development of seizures before onset as well as preventing refractoriness at the very beginning herald by the first seizures.
期刊介绍:
Seizure - European Journal of Epilepsy is an international journal owned by Epilepsy Action (the largest member led epilepsy organisation in the UK). It provides a forum for papers on all topics related to epilepsy and seizure disorders.