Epilepsy is the most common neurological disorder, which affects more than 50 million people worldwide. Despite the development and use of several antiepileptic drugs (AEDs), attempted seizure control fails in almost 30% of the individuals treated. Other patients benefit from seizure control by drug therapy at the expense of dose‐related toxicity and side effects. These drawbacks with conventional AEDs demand the need for developing more effective and safer antiseizure agents. As a result, extensive efforts are devoted to design and develop new effective molecules as antiepileptics. This area of research to find more effective and safer AEDs is important and challenging. This review describes the future perspective of various 1,3,4‐oxadiazole derivatives as anticonvulsant agents and focuses on the design and development of the new effective molecule.

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US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) approved gabapentin as an adjuvant treatment for refractory partial seizures and several diverse disorders. The drug has a relatively safe profile and is well tolerated; however, awareness is required to monitor the patient's medication, its misuse, and how to approach better patient fate. Despite the enormous scientific hypothesis encircling the drug, there is a requisite to research further about the novelty of the drug. The review delineates the drug profile, synthesis, pharmacology, ADME properties, and computational study of gabapentin.

In the past two decades, there has been sudden development in antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) for the adjunctive treatment of epilepsy. CNB is a leading-edge new generation tetrazole-derived carbamate for the treatment of focal-onset epileptic seizures where the mode of action is mediated by blocking voltage-gated sodium channels and interaction with the GABAergic system. The US FDA approved CNB with new hope for superior control over seizure, better safety, and tolerability profile compared to earlier AEDs.