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The newly introduced antiepileptic drug, lamotrigine, has been reported to have a mechanism of action similar to that of phenytoin. Because phenytoin is a standard clinical treatment for convulsive status epilepticus, we compared the efficacy of lamotrigine to that of phenytoin in a model of secondarily generalized convulsive status epilepticus in rats that responds to drug concentrations similar...