Citation

Diehl LW. Psychiatr. Clin. (Basel) 1983; 16(5-6): 305-315.

Vernacular Title

Psychotrope Effekte der Antiepileptika.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1983, Karger Publishers)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

6647882

Abstract

Today the rank taken by antiepileptic drugs in the complex conditional fabric of mental disorders in epilepsies is well known. There are direct as well as indirect psychotropic effects caused by medication quite independent of other disorders which epilepsy based on or correlated with. It is of particular practical significance to control the concentration of drugs and their metabolic interactions by means of plasma levels which has nothing to do with a 'therapy of plasma levels'. The significance of plasma concentration, however, is becoming more and more evident. There exist today several antiepileptic drugs, meanwhile well researched and properly applied, which achieve, in terms of frequency and intensity, that progressively less mental disorders develop, establish or become chronic.

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