What Is The Best Anticonvulsant?

What Is The Best Anticonvulsant? “[Lamictal] seems to be the winner,” Marson says. The second trial looked at 716 patients newly diagnosed with generalized epilepsy. It compared the older drug valproic acid (in the U.S., Depakote is the most popular member of this drug family) to Lamictal and Topamax. What are anticonvulsant medication used for?