ABSTRACT
Anticonvulsants are the mainstay in the treatment of pediatric epileptic disorders (Trimble, 1990a; Dunn et al., 1998). Their use has been extended to the treatment of childhood and adolescent psychiatric disorders (Biederman et al., 1998; Connor et al., 1998) as a consequence of their documented efficacy in adult populations with bipolar illness (Bowden et al., 1994; Denicoff et al., 1997a; Keck et al., 1998; Post et al., 1998; Yang et al., 1998), aggression (Kavoussi and Coccaro, 1998) and other psychiatric disorders (Fava, 1997).
