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If you visit PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/), a service of the National Library of Medicine, you can read summaries of studies that have tested Vimpat as well as other reports about this medication. Medical searches should be performed under the generic name, which is lacosamide.

Here are links to some articles relevant to this subject:

Lacosamide: an investigational drug for adjunctive treatment of partial-onset seizures.
Ben-Menachem E.
Drugs Today (Barc). 2008 Jan;44(1):35-40

Efficacy and safety of oral lacosamide as adjunctive therapy in adults with partial-onset seizures.
Ben-Menachem E, Biton V, Jatuzis D, Abou-Khalil B, Doty P, Rudd GD.
Epilepsia. 2007 Jul;48(7):1308-17.

Lacosamide: a review of preclinical properties.
Beyreuther BK, Freitag J, Heers C, Krebsfänger N, Scharfenecker U, Stöhr T.
CNS Drug Rev. 2007 Spring;13(1):21-42.

Lacosamide.
Doty P, Rudd GD, Stoehr T, Thomas D.
Neurotherapeutics. 2007 Jan;4(1):145-8.

Read more about how to find and understand information in PubMed.


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