Treating Stroke-Like Episodes with Carbamazepine May Trigger Psychosis

Abstract

The indication for applying CBZ was obviously the SLE. It was propagated to treat all SLEs with anti-seizure drugs (ASDs) irrespective if the patient presents with seizures or shows epileptiform discharges on electroencephalography (EEG). This management of SLEs has been recently challenged. SLEs may not only be driven by seizures, as mentioned in the introduction, as they occur in the absence of clinical or subclinical seizures and in the absence of epileptiform discharges on EEG.