“The Food and Drug Administration has begun a preliminary inquiry into whether epilepsy drugs may increase the risk of suicidal behavior in some patients, particularly those who use them for psychiatric illnesses.” (New York Times )
We in psychiatry use alot of anticonvulsant drugs for modulation of mood and impulses. I can see it now; they are going to make the same methodological mistakes they have made in concluding that antidepressants exacerbate suicide risk, about which I have written here in detail.
