Is carbamazepine helpful in paroxysmal behavior disorders?
Carbamazepine was used to treat two patients with paroxysmal behavioral episodes and preexisting psychiatric disease. Carbamazepine abolished the paroxysmal episodes. Its effects on the preexisting disease were less clear. These data suggest carbamazepine treatment for paroxysmal behavior.
D000328:Adult; D002220:Carbamazepine / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D004833:Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011595:Psychomotor Agitation / Q000188:drug therapy*
D002220:Carbamazepine