%0 Journal Article %T Anticonvulsant Medications in Mitochondrial Disease %A Divakar S. Mithal %A Jonathan E. Kurz %J Archive of "Pediatric Neurology Briefs". %D 2017 %R 10.15844/pedneurbriefs-31-3-3 %X Researchers from Vienna, Austria and Sao Paulo, Brazil studied the known effects of anticonvulsant drugs on mitochondria, using a literature search to include only references to epilepsy associated with mitochondrial disease, and a specific anti-convulsant drug (i.e. levetiracetam) with a specific mitochondrial function (i.e. mitochondrial membrane potential) %K Mitochondrial Disease %K Epilepsy %K Anti-Convulsant %K Anti-Epileptic Drug %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5681459/