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Basic Information

Recruitment status
Health condition(s) or Problem(s) studied	Primary Generalized Tonic Clonic Seizures (Epilepsy)
Date of first enrollment	02/03/2012
Target sample size	165
Countries of recruitment
Study type	Interventional
Intervention(s)	investigational material(s) Generic name etc : E2007 INN of investigational material : Perampanel Therapeutic category code : 113 Antiepileptics Dosage and Administration for Investigational material : Oral

Outcome(s)

Primary Outcome	Percent change from baseline in PGTC seizure frequency per 28 days [ Time Frame: from baseline over the Titration and Maintenance Periods (17 weeks) ]
Secondary Outcome

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Age minimum	>= 12age old
Age maximum	Not applicable
Gender	Both
Include criteria	1.Clinical diagnosis of PGTC seizures (with or without other subtypes of primary generalized seizures) and experiencing >/= 2 PGTC seizures during the 8-week period prior to randomization 2.Have had a routine electroencephalogram (EEG) prior to or during the Baseline Period with electroencephalographic features consistent with primary generalized epilepsy; other concomitant anomaly should be explained by adequate past medical history 3.On a fixed dose of one to two concomitant antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) for a minimum of 30 days prior to Baseline; only one inducer AED (i.e., carbamazepine, oxcarbazepine, or phenytoin) out of the maximum of two AEDs will be allowed 4.A vagal nerve stimulator (VNS) will be allowed, but it must have been implanted >/= 5 months prior to Baseline (stimulator parameters can not be changed for 30 days prior to Baseline and for the duration of the study). 5.Have had a computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) within the last 10 years (for adults) and 5 years (for adolescents) that ruled out a progressive cause of epilepsy 6.A ketogenic diet will be allowed as long as the subject has been on this diet for 5 weeks prior to randomization
Exclude criteria	1.A history of status epilepticus that required hospitalization within 12 months prior to Baseline 2.Seizure clusters where individual seizures cannot be counted 3.A history of psychogenic seizures 4.Concomitant diagnosis of Partial Onset Seizures (POS) 5.Progressive neurological disease 6.Clinical diagnosis of Lennox-Gastaut syndrome 7.If felbamate is used as a concomitant AED, subjects must be on felbamate for at least 2 years, with a stable dose for 60 days prior to Baseline. They must not have a history of white blood cell (WBC) count below </= 2500/microL (2.50 109/L), platelets < 100,000/microL, liver function tests (LFTs) > 3 times the upper limit of normal (ULN), or other indication of hepatic or bone marrow dysfunction while receiving felbamate. 8.Concomitant use of vigabatrin: Subjects who took vigabatrin in the past must be discontinued for approximately 5 months prior to Baseline, and must have documentation showing no evidence of a vigabatrin-associated clinically significant abnormality in an automated visual perimetry test 9.Concomitant use of barbiturates (except for seizure control indication) within 30 days prior to Baseline 10.Use of intermittent rescue benzodiazepines (i.e., one to two doses over a 24-hour period considered one-time rescue) two or more times within the 30 days prior to Baseline