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EPILEPSY RESEARCH
Volume 92, Issue 2-3, Pages 253-257Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2010.10.003
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Thalidomide; Antiepileptic drugs; Refractory epilepsy; Sedative drugs
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- National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico (CONACyT) [013758]
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We have experimentally shown that thalidomide has strong anticonvulsant properties. In an open label study, eight male patients with refractory epilepsy received thalidomide at daily-doses of 200 mg during 1 year, frequency of seizures before and during treatment were compared. The mean number of seizures before thalidomide administration was 26 +/- 4 per month; it decreased to 7 +/- 1 along thalidomide therapy. Our results indicate that thalidomide has strong therapeutic effects in refractory epilepsy. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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