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Not medical advice and not a treatment guide. This is an educational map of the published literature. Several agents shown here are contraindicated in specific epilepsies and will make seizures worse. A link records that two topics are discussed together, not that a mechanism is proven. Nothing here should be used to start, stop, or change treatment.

Epilepsy: mechanisms, targets and therapeutics

A literature-linked map of what drives seizures, what causes epilepsy, and what has been tried against both

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Every agent in the map

Click a row to open it in the Map. Sort by any column. “Origin” is the indication a repurposed molecule was originally developed or licensed for.

Trace a drug back to the biology

Pick an agent to see the full chain, drug → molecular target → disease mechanism, with the supporting literature counted and cited at every hop. Each count is a live PubMed query you can open and audit.