====== Rufinamide ======

//Rufinamide //(sold under the brand names //Banzel, Inovelon// and others) is an anti-convulsant medication used to treat seizure disorders - such as severe [[content:medicine:diseases:a-f:epilepsy]]. It was approved by the US FDA in 2008,

Its 'mechanism of action' is currently unknown. One theory suggest :

>Structurally unrelated to other antiepileptic drugs, rufinamide is thought to act primarily by prolonging the inactivation phase of voltage-gated sodium channels.
>\\ [[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29313492/| Epileptic Disorders  . 2018 Feb 1;20(1):13-29]]