Lamotrigine

Definition: Lamotrigine ( luh-MOH-trih-jeen), sold under the brand name Lamictal among others, is a medication used to treat epilepsy and stabilize mood in bipolar disorder. For epilepsy, this includes focal seizures, tonic-clonic seizures, and seizures in Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. In bipolar disorder, lamotrigine has not been shown to reliably treat acute depression in any groups except for the severely depressed; but for patients with bipolar disorder who are not currently symptomatic, it appears to reduce... source: Wikipedia

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387562000

ID date

2 Aug 2005

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3563711000001104

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Lamotrigine