Divalproex Sodium Description

Divalproex sodium is chemically circuitous from sodium valproate and valproic acid in a 1:1 ratio.

Divalproex sodium is anticipation to plan by accretion the levels of a academician neurotransmitter called gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA). GABA is an inhibitory neurotransmitter, which agency that its attendance makes it harder for assumption beef (neurons) in the academician to become activated (fire). It is believed that accretion GABA's inhibitory activity on academician neurons accounts for the adeptness of divalproex sodium to abatement seizures, barrier berserk behaviors, and abatement the abundance of cephalalgia headaches.

Divalproex sodium was crystalline to abatement the likelihood of access in 1963. In 1978, the United States Food and Drug Administration accustomed it for this use. Other uses for divalproex sodium were researched and accustomed subsequently, including use adjoin aberration (1995) and use to abatement cephalalgia cephalalgia frequency.

Divalproex sodium is used to amusement assertive types of seizures (epilepsy). This anesthetic is an anticonvulsant that works in the academician tissue to stop seizures.

Divalproex sodium is aswell used to amusement the berserk appearance of bipolar ataxia (manic-depressive illness), and helps anticipate cephalalgia headaches.