Topiramate

• Medication boosts alcoholics' life quality

  The medication topiramate may not only improve drinking problems in people with alcohol dependence, but boost their quality of life as well.

• Topiramate helpful for bulimia

  The drug topiramate, used as an anti-seizure treatment, can reduce binging and purging in women with bulimia nervosa and improve quality of life.

• Topiramate lowers weight and blood pressure

  The antiseizure drug topiramate helps reduce body weight and blood pressure in obese patients with high blood pressure (hypertension).

• Topiramate may impair cognitive function

  The anti-seizure drug, topiramate impairs cognitive performance whereas gabapentin seems to have minimal effects on cognition.

• Epilepsy drug may help alcoholics

  Treatment with the anti-epilepsy drug topiramate appears to reduce alcohol craving and drinking in alcoholic adults.

• Epilepsy drug helps reduce alcoholism

  A recent study suggests that the epilepsy drug topiramate may help alcoholics reduce their alcohol consumption. The drug cut the number of drinks per day, the number of