Anticonvulsants (antiepileptics or AEDs) helps to normalise the way nerve impulses travel along the nerve cells which helps prevent or treat seizures.

Drug classes:

• AMPA receptor antagonists
• barbiturate anticonvulsants
• benzodiazepine anticonvulsants
• carbamate anticonvulsants
• carbonic anhydrase inhibitor anticonvulsants
• dibenzazepine anticonvulsants
• fatty acid derivative anticonvulsants
• gamma-aminobutyric acid analogs
• gamma-aminobutyric acid reuptake inhibitors
• hydantoin anticonvulsants
• miscellaneous anticonvulsants
• neuronal potassium channel openers
• oxazolidinedione anticonvulsants
• pyrrolidine anticonvulsants
• succinimide anticonvulsants
• triazine anticonvulsants