Recent Development in Substituted Benzothiazole as an Anticonvulsant Agent
: Heterocyclic compounds and its derivatives gained more attention due to their valuable biological and pharmacological properties. Benzothiazole is a heterocyclic structure containing bicyclic ring system with large panel of applications. The benzothiazole is present in many new products undergoing research with the hope that it possesses various biological activities. Epilepsy is a diverse group of diseases marked by neuronal excitability and hypersynchronous neuronal activity of motor, sensory or autonomic events with or without loss of consciousness.. Presently many antiepileptic drugs like Lamotrigine, stiripentol tiagabine, pregabalin, felbamate and topiramate are available and effective toward only 60-80% of patients along with undesirable side effects, such as hepatotoxicity, gastrointestinal disturbance, drowsiness, gingival hyperplasia, and hirsutism. Thus many attempts are still going on to develop antiepileptic drugs with safer profile. This review is mainly focus on compilation of reported scientific literature data in the recent one-decade on anticonvulsant activity of benzothiazole compounds.