• One large study showed that cerebrovascular diseases represented the most common etiology of secondary epilepsy.
• Animal studies have shown most antiepileptic drugs to be neuroprotectants.
• Animal studies have also shown, however, that phenytoin, benzodiazepines, and phenobarbital may impair post-stroke motor recovery.
• Carbamazepine (Tegretol) has not been found to demonstrate any significant hinderance of  post-stroke recovery.
• From an anicdotal clinical perspective, levetiracetam (Keppra) is often used to treat post-stroke seizure.

References

• Camilo, et al.  Seizures and Epilepsy After Ischemic Stroke.  Stroke.  2004; 35:  1769-75.
• Hauser WA, et al.  Incidence of epilepsy and unprovoked seizures in Rochester, Minnesota;  1935-1984.  Epilepsia.  1993; 34:  453-68.