1. Efficacy of cannabinoids in pharmacoresistant epilepsy: A narrative review of the literature
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Ferreiros, Alexandra, Beltrán-Carrascal, Elkin, Restrepo, Paula, Pantoja, Camila, Castañeda-Cardona, Camilo, Lasalvia, Pieralessandro, Van der Werf, Laura, Nariño, Daniel, and Rosselli, Diego
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cannabis ,drug resistant epilepsy ,review ,Medicine ,Medicine (General) ,R5-920 - Abstract
Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder that affects approximately 1% of the world’s pop7u-lation. About one third of those patients suffer from treatment-resistant epilepsy (TRE8), defined as failure to stop seizures despite adequate trials of at least two medications at therapeutic dosa-ges. There has been a growing interest in the development of novel antiepileptic drugs with diffe-rent mechanisms of action. This narrative review, based on 42 references retrieved from Scopus and Medline, discusses the scientific data from human and animal studies regarding the efficacy of cannabis-based treatment for epilepsy. Benefits have been described in pre-clinical and cli-nical studies in children, but ongoing research will clarify the real role of cannabinoids in TRE.
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- 2020
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