Repurposing the known anti-epileptic drug into a stroke medicine: Valproic acid (brand name: Convulex, Stavzor and others ), used in the treatment of epilepsy and bipolar disorder and to prevent migraine headaches, attenuates hippocampal neurons injury, augments regenerative neurogenesis after Ischemic Stroke, and ameliorates stroke damage and neurological deficits, via up-regulation of its target genes BDNF and NAMPT, 25/November/2018, 6.41 am