Identification

• According to Neurologychannel.com, epilepsy medication is broken down into two different categories, first generation anti-convulsant medications that are older medicines and second generation anti-convulsant medications that began development in the mid-1990s. Anti-convulsant medication is the only kind of medication used to control the seizures associated with epilepsy.
  
  

Warning

• In 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug administration ordered all epilepsy medication manufacturers to put warnings on their medications to warn of the possibility of suicidal thoughts, if the wrong dose is given. This is why using the correct doses of the right combination of medications is important.
  
  

Significance

• In 2008, the FDA approved the use of the prescription drug Banzel as a medication to be included in the treatment of severe forms of epilepsy such as Lennox-Gastaut syndrome.
  
  

Considerations

• Epilepsy medication is prescribed to control seizures. When a doctor develops a medication regimen, the person's age, health and medical history are all taken into consideration.
  
  

Potential

• There are many different kinds of epilepsy medications because there are many different forms of seizures that a person may experience. It could take a doctor several changes in medication before they develop the right regimen.