Patent Category: Therapies

Use of Ifenprodil in the treatment of chronic seizures

The invention relates to use of ifenprodil for the treatment of chronic or recurrent seizures that are a symptom of i.a. temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), including, in particular, drug-resistant TLE. Approximately 50 million people worldwide suffer from epilepsy. In approximately 40% of patients, temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is resistant to currently available pharmacotherapies. An important factor in the pathogenesis of the disease is the small subpopulation of the receptor for ...