Epilepsy Drug Treats Sleep-Related Eating Disorder

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Topamax, usually prescribed to prevent epileptic seizures, is also an effective treatment for so-called sleep-related eating disorder, according to a new study. Sleep-related eating disorder, or SRED, “is a behavioral disorder combining the repetitive nocturnal awakenings of a sleep disorder with the driven, compulsive eating of a daytime eating disorder,” study author Dr. John W. Winkelman, of Harvard Medical School, Boston, writes in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.>>> Discuss This Story

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