Advanced drug delivery system and method of treating psychiatric, neurological and other disorders with carbamazepine

摘要

The present invention relates to a composition and method of treating a patient by administering carbamazepine in a pharmaceutical dosage form capable of maintaining the patient's blood concentration at from about 4 mu g/ml to about 12 mu g/ml over at least a 12 hour period, where the blood concentration of carbamazepine does not vary by more than 60 percent.