verapamil

When the team treated the mice with verapamil, a calcium channel blocker used to treat hypertension and chest pains, the mice quickly recovered muscle function and began to resemble their healthy, wild type peers.

Sometimes, because of these policies, patients are put on meds that are not approved by the FDA for the treatment of migraines, like the antidepressant amitriptyline and the high blood pressure drug verapamil.

After hearing about the sometimes circuitous academic paths of graduate students who led the experiments, students got down to the business of calculating concentrations of verapamil and observing its effect on cardiomyocytes under the microscope.

The committee also recommended that ivabradine should not be prescribed along with verapamil or diltiazem, drugs that also lower the heart rate.

Dixon-Salazar acknowledges that these results are anecdotal and that verapamil is unlikely to be a general epilepsy treatment.