The goal of this interventional study is to learn about the efficacy and safety of first line anti epileptic drugs (AEDs) as substitution therapy for children who are resistant to second-line AEDs. The main question to answer it aims are : how much the difference proportion of responders (responders are children who achieve the decrease of seizure frequencies by 50%) how much time it is needed to achieve the decrease of seizure frequencies by 50% The patients who are eligible for the study and have given their consent, will be enrolled, divided into 2 groups, the control and intervention. The participant should follow the 14 weeks of intervention that consists of 6 phases : baseline, initial dose, titration dose, maintenance dose, tapering-off dose, and new combination maintenance dose.
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the different proportion of responders between groups who get first-line anti-epileptic drugs (intervention) and second-line anti-epileptic drugs (control)
Timeframe: trough the study completion, about 14 weeks