Medications and Treatments

Question 1

What is the first-line treatment for absence epilepsy?

Answer 1

Ethosuximide

Question 2

The first-line treatment for infantile spasms is

Answer 2

ACTH

Question 3

What are antiseziure medication options for focal onset seizures

Answer 3

Carbamazepine, Gabapentin, Lacosamide

Question 4

the first line antiseizure medication options for GTC:

Answer 4

Carbamazepine, ethotoin, phenytoin, primidone

Question 5

Describe hemispherectomy and its indications

Answer 5

Large parts of one hemisphere are excised and the two hemispheres are disconnected. Usually in children and adolescents w/ severe refractory epilepsy due to extensive damage in one hemisphere

Question 6

What drug is one of the first and oldest antiseizure medicines, still used in the treatment of epilepsy, and is long-acting sedative drug with anticonvulsant actions?

Answer 6

Phenobarbital

Question 7

What type of seizure is the antiseizure medication Oxcarbazepine used to treat?

Answer 7

All types of focal onset seizures

Question 8

First line antiseizure medication option for JME

Answer 8

VPA

Question 9

What antiseizure medication is used to treat seizures that occur in the temporal lobe?

Answer 9

Carbamazepine

Question 10

Indications for Corpus Callostomy

Answer 10

Refractory generalzied seizures, resistance to AED and cognitive decline. Primary indication have been drop attacks and treatment of LGS