Topiramate-induced weight loss: A review

TPM is able to induce weight loss, especially in high baseline BMI patients, not strictly depending on daily dosage and perhaps not influenced by gender. This makes TPM a good choice, especially in obese patients suffering from seizures. However, TPM can make nutritionally vulnerable children or adult patients, with epilepsy associated with other neuropsychiatric diseases, who cannot voluntarily increase their caloric intake.