Valproate
Subtitle: A Drug for Epilepsy, Psychiatry and Beyond (Milestones in Drug Therapy)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
Published: August 15, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9783764358365
Subjects: Neurology & clinical neurophysiology; Pharmacology; Psychiatry; Chemotherapy; Epilepsy; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Neurology - General; Pain Medicine; Science / Biology
First sentence: Like many important discoveries in the history of pharmacology, valproate was not developed by any "rational strategy," but its anticonvulsant activity was serendipitously discovered by Pierre Eymard in France in 1962.