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By the time Dr. Holt met her, the patient’s blood pressure had been brought down to normal with medications and her seizure controlled with a medication called Dilantin.

There, her blood pressure was carefully brought under control with powerful intravenous medications and she was loaded with Dilantin, a drug used to prevent seizures.

Although his efforts to influence clinical practice and Food and Drug Administration labeling fell short, anticonvulsants, ironically not including Dilantin, are recognized today as effective mood stabilizers in the treatment of bipolar disorder.

After her first seizure, she visited the hospital and was given Dilantin, a common anti-seizure medication.

She was put on Dilantin to control them.