Place Your Advertisement Here. All ad revenues support the mission of the Epilepsy Therapy Project.
 
Wed, 5/23/2012

Sign up for our Mailing List
Receive your weekly epilepsy news in an easy to read email format every Wednesday



Place Your Advertisement Here

Take control of your epilepsy and seizures. Seizure management has never been easier.

TAKE CONTROL TODAY

How does Depakote affect the brain?: Basic

Topics List
New comprehensive downloadable medication sheet
  • Additional information on this drug and how to use it.
  • A starting point for discussion with your doctor.
  • Answers to frequently asked questions.

Brain cells need to work (fire) at a certain rate to function normally. During a seizure, brain cells are forced to work much more rapidly than normal. Depakote helps prevent brain cells from working as fast as a seizure requires them to. In this way, seizures can be stopped when they are just beginning.

We don't completely understand how Depakote works. Doctors think that it may work in several ways at once. That could be why it works for so many different kinds of seizures.


Welcome to the Wiki. This space is created for epilepsy.com members to share their own experiences and expertise to help refine and expand the discussion around important topics.

No members have yet contributed to this topic. If you are not yet an epilepsy.com member, register today to get started on this Wiki topic and the many other advantages of being a member. If you are a member and wish to be the first to edit this Wiki topic, please make sure to login, then click on the orange "Start Wiki" button at the top of this page. Or, learn more about Wikis.


Related Content

View all Forums
 
New - Depakote and JME
Created by at4/3/08 - 12:09 am
New - Newly diagnosed JME
Created by at3/30/08 - 10:39 am
New - 3 1/2 y/o put on Keppra - psychotic behavior?
Created by at3/27/08 - 4:49 pm|4 Comments
switching from depakote to lacmital + rashes
Created by at3/1/08 - 8:10 pm|7 Comments
New - Depakote question
Created by at3/1/08 - 12:27 pm|10 Comments
New - Depakote, Behaviors, and personality
Created by at2/11/08 - 4:22 pm|22 Comments
New - lamictal and pregnancy
Created by at1/30/08 - 2:10 am|15 Comments
statistics on neural tube defects
Created by at1/28/08 - 1:05 pm
New - 3year old with Myoclonic Seizures
Created by at1/23/08 - 2:25 pm|10 Comments
New - Seizure free but abnormal EEG?
Created by at1/18/08 - 11:31 pm|4 Comments
Any information for a child on Depakote?
Created by at1/14/08 - 9:09 am|3 Comments
New - From Depakote to Keppra... Right or Wrong Choice?
Created by at9/1/07 - 5:32 pm|17 Comments
Antibiotics interfering with seizure meds
Created by at8/23/07 - 9:54 am|2 Comments