Recommendations for prescribing new antiepileptic drugs | American ...
Several new antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) are effective in treating selected patients with partial or mixed seizure disorders, but evidence for their efficacy in patients with generalized epilepsy syndromes is lacking, according to a meta-analysis by the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) and the American Epilepsy Society (AES). Evidence-based guidelines for the prescription of new AEDs were published in the April 27, 2004, issue of Neurology.