Active clinical trials for "Epilepsy"

A double-blind, placebo-controlled study to assess the efficacy of adjunctive treatment with LEV 3000mg/day in reducing myoclonic seizures in adolescents and adults suffering from idiopathic generalised epilepsy and to evaluate the safety of LEV in the same population.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the safety and pharmacokinetics of LCM syrup in children ages from 1 month to 17 years with uncontrolled partial seizures when added to 1 to 3 other antiepileptic drugs (AEDs).

Open-Label Extension Study to Evaluate the Long-Term Safety and Tolerability of Oxcarbazepine Extended-Release (OXC XR)

The study is to evaluate safety, efficacy and pharmacokinetics of intravenously administered fosphenytoin in patients with neurosurgery, head trauma, epilepsy or status epilepticus who are requiring a loading dose of phenytoin.

This study will compare radiosurgery (focused radiation, Gamma Knife Radiosurgery) with temporal lobectomy (standard surgical care) as a treatment of temporal lobe epilepsy. Patients who have seizures that begin in their temporal lobe that are not controlled with medications into the trial will be offered entry. Patients with a high likelihood of having their seizures controlled with open surgery will have treatment randomized between the standard surgery and radiosurgery. A prior study has shown that focused radiation (radiosurgery) may also reduce or eliminate seizures arising from the temporal lobe. The main study hypothesis is that radiosurgery is as safe and effective as temporal lobectomy in treating patients with seizures arising from the medial temporal lobe.

The purpose of this study is to determine the safety, tolerability, and efficacy of VX-765 in subjects with Treatment-resistant Partial Epilepsy

Limited data exist on the effectiveness of antiepileptic drugs for treatment of childhood absence epilepsy. Preliminary data suggest that topiramate may be an effective drug for this condition. The present study is designed to provide further evidence of the potential effectiveness of topiramate for childhood absence epilepsy, as well as preliminary information about a potential target dose for future study.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and preliminary effectiveness of the novel compound RWJ-333369 in patients with partial onset seizures who are currently being treated with 1 or 2 concomitant antiepileptic drugs.

The purpose of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of topiramate as add-on therapy in patients with difficult to control partial onset seizures who are taking one or two standard anti-epileptic drugs.

OBJECTIVES: I. Determine the effect of antiparasitic treatment with albendazole on the severity and duration of epilepsy due to neurocysticercosis. II. Determine the effect of a short course of albendazole on Taenia solium cysts present in the brain. III. Determine the natural regression of cerebral T. solium cysts in patients given placebo and their response to treatment at the end of the study.