Yang Zhang, Xu Zucai. Research progress of preventive antiepileptic drug treatment[J]. Journal of Chongqing Medical University, 2016,41(1):5-7. DOI: 10.13406/j.cnki.cyxb.000675.
Epilepsy is a kind of common chronic nervous system disease
which belongs to a global public health problem. Epileptic disease has negative impact on cognition and behavior
personality and mood
as well as condition of sleep of the patients
leading to increased mortality. According to causes of the disease
epilepsy can be divided to 3 types :idiopathic
symptomatic and cryptogenic epilepsy. In recent years
there has been a wide range of studies on the preventive antiepileptic drug treatment. In this paper
the preventive antiepileptic drugs treatment for common epilepsy disease were reviewed in order to provide references for further research on the preventive antiepileptic drug treatment.