3rd edition. — Oxford University Press, 2022. — 473 p. Atlas of EEG, Seizure Semiology, and Management is a comprehensive yet concise textbook with a focus on the practical use of EEG and clinical neurology in the diagnosis and management of epilepsy. It begins with the physiological foundation of EEG, the physics and electronics of EEG generation and recording, and the...
Second Edition. — Informa UK Ltd., 2007. — 168 p. Providing a pictorial representation of this common and chronic disorder of the nervous system, this revision of the best-selling Atlas of Epilepsy complements existing textbooks. Covering diagnosis by EEG, pathology and neuroimaging, plus valuable material on prognosis and management, the second edition of this highly acclaimed...
3rd edition. — Oxford University Press, 2022. — 337 p. — ISBN13: 9780197541210. — ISBN10: 0197541216. This new edition of Antiseizure Medications: A Clinician's Manual reflects the advances in the study and treatment of epilepsy in the past several years. As a practical tool for physicians and other healthcare providers, this text focuses on the selection and use of antiseizure...
Basel: Birkhäuser, 1990. — 486 p. In recent years there has been intense interest in the basic mechanisms of epilepsy. Many symposia and monographs have been devoted to this topic. These reviews, however, have focused almost exclusively on studies performed in models of partial (or focal) epilepsy. It was natural that scientists interested in the fundamental mechanism of...
Thieme, 2009. — 217 p. — ISBN: 9781604060300 Operative Techniques in Epilepsy Surgery is an essential guide to the latest techniques and therapeutic strategies for the surgical management of patients with epilepsy. Distinguished pioneers in the field provide comprehensive coverage of the range of operative approaches, helping clinicians to thoroughly prepare for surgery. The...
2012 - 128 p. , ISBN: 1847091547 Epilepsy, or seizure disorder, is widespread, affecting more than 350,000 in the UK, and an estimated three million approximately in the US. While anti-epileptic drugs have a major role in preventing seizure activity, they may not be totally effective in achieving control, and there is a strong burgeoning interest in lifestyle measures and...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 223 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-974350-6. Epilepsy is a diverse and sometimes complicated condition. It is also very common, such that all neurologists, and nearly all physicians, will encounter patients with epilepsy. Perhaps more than most other conditions in neurology, epilepsy is further complicated by potential interactions with other medical...
Berlin: Springer, 1989. — 215 p. This book provides neurologists, geneticists, pediatricians, and pharmacologists with basic knowledge for genetic counselling, while putting emphasis on the evidence of heterogeneity in this field. The volume contains separate sections on population rates, family studies on selected syndromes, and special methods and topics. Two particularly...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 264 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-10835-6. Epilepsy is a prevalent and serious neurological disorder. This vital textbook addresses the role of neuroimaging as a unique tool to provide in vivo biomarkers aimed at furthering our understanding of causes and consequences of epilepsy in a day-to-day clinical context. Unique in its approach, this...
J. Libbey Eurotext, 2015. — 112 p. The need for neuropathology reviews in epilepsy surgery tissues steadily increases. However, textbooks and case presentations highlighting and focusing on this specific topic are rare. For major histopathological entities of brain lesions encountered in modern epilepsy surgery programs, which is hippocampal sclerosis, brain tumours associated...
5th Edition. — Health Press, 2012. — 144 p. Fast Facts: Epilepsy is a succinct and practical aid to the diagnosis and treatment of seizure disorders. Contents include: The diagnostic essentials - classification of seizures, conditions that can mimic epileptic seizures, clinical evaluation of the patient and the latest brain-imaging techniques. The principles of drug selection...
Philadelphia: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2008. — 288 p. Thoroughly updated for its Fourth Edition, this best-selling pocket reference is a practical point-of-care guide to the diagnosis and management of epilepsy. In an easy-to-use outline format, the book provides complete, clinically focused information on seizure classification, epilepsies with different ages of onset,...
5th ed. — John Libbey Eurotext Ltd., 2012. — 600 p. The first edition of this book, now better known as the Blue Guide, was published in 1984. It highlighted the various epileptic syndromes which had recently been identified. Most of these syndromes, which constituted a practical and original approach to epilepsy, were subsequently integrated into the international...
6th edition. — Montroueg: Jonh Libbey, 2019. — 1372 p. Classification, Epidemiology, Prognosis. Genetic Basis And Testing Of Epileptic Syndromes. Animal Models Of Epileptic Syndromes. Eeg Traits And Epileptic Syndromes. Syndromes And Antiepilepsy Drugs. Benign Neonatal And Infantile Seizures And Epilepsies. Early Severe Neonatal And Infantile Epilepsies. Infantile Spasms....
New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2021. — 514 p. Designed to provide a comprehensive but accessible introduction to epilepsy and seizure disorders, Epilepsy, 2nd edition provides state-of-the-art information in a concise format useful to a wide audience, from neurology residents to epilepsy fellows and practitioners. This illustrated guide to the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 172 p. Antiepileptic drugs are among the most commonly prescribed medications by both neurologists and psychiatrists, as they exert a number of effects which extend far beyond their anticonvulsant properties. There is growing evidence that each antiepileptic drug is characterised by a specific behavioural profile. Behavioural Neurology of...
Springer, 2018. — 191 p. This book illustrates the clinical interface between neurology and psychiatry by focusing on neuropsychiatric conditions characterised by alterations at the level of both motor function and behaviour. The neuropsychiatric approach to movement disorders and epilepsy is of key importance in clinically assessing and treating these common and often...
Demos Health, 2006. — 134 p. Approximately 2.5 million people in the U.S. suffer from epilepsy; of these, more than one million are women of child-bearing age. With concerns about everything from medication-related birth defects to falls during seizures, many of these women are fearful of having children. The good news is that, with proper prenatal care, more than 90% will...
Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005. — 304 p. This volume is the first comprehensive text and clinical reference on idiopathic myoclonic epilepsies of infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. The world’s foremost experts describe the phenotypes and subtypes of myoclonic epilepsies and the underlying molecular defects and summarize cutting-edge advances in...
Complementary and alternative therapies for epilepsy. Demos medical2009, 330 p. "Epilepsy is a difficult illness to control up to 35% of patients do not respond fully to traditional medical treatments. For this reason, many sufferers choose to rely on or incorporate complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) into their treatment regimens. Written for physicians, knowledgeable...
New York: Springer, 1988. — 287 p. Brain Metabolism and Pathophysiology of Human Epilepsy. Electrophysiology of the Interictal-Ictal Transition in Humans. Initiation and Spread of Seizures in Man: Analytical Methods for Monitoring Seizures. Cellular Mechanisms of Interictal-Ictal Transitions. Primary Generalized Seizures with Spike and Wave Discharge. Mechanisms of Kindling: A...
New York: Academic Press, 2001. — 295 p. It is well recognized that there is an intimate and reciprocal interaction between epilepsy and sleep. The book, Epilepsy and Sleep is a ground-breaking, comprehensive source for exploring this correlation and is especially timely because of the considerable growth in the understanding of the physiology underlying both sleep and...
John Libbey Eurotext, 2011. — 128 p. Dravet syndrome is a rare and severe form of epilepsy. Severe myoclonic epilepsy in infancy was described for the first time by Charlotte Dravet in 1978 in Marseille. Common characteristics were observed, such as it appearing during the first year of life, sensitivity to fever, various types of seizures particularly myoclonic, and mental...
New York: Springer, 2018. — 385 p. This expanded edition represents the state of the art and captures many changes in our understanding of status epilepticus over the past decade. Varied characteristics and treatment approaches, the growing use of continuous EEG monitoring, and insights into the underlying biology and pathophysiology of convulsive and nonconvulsive SE are...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. - 209 p. Seizures and Epilepsy is a comprehensive textbook intended to cover the entire field of epileptology. As an aid to its value as a reference for useful clinical information, this pocket-sized book reproduces those tables and figures containing information that practicing physicians might most often wish to access. In addition, in...
New York: Demos Medical, 2005. — 152 p. What is epilepsy? Differential diagnosis and classification of seizures and epilepsy Epidemiology and etiology Diagnostic approaches Practical approaches to treatment Antiepileptic drugs Altern[a]tive treatments Psychosocial issues Public health issues.
New York: Academic Press, 2001. — 606 p. Editorial Board Mechanisms of brain plasticity: From normal brain function to pathology Brain development and generation of brain pathologies Maturation of channels and receptors: Consequences for excitability Neuronal activity and the establishment of normal and epileptic circuits during brain development The effects of seizures on the...
Wolters Kluwer, 2008. — 5752 p. Editors: Jerome Engel Jr., Timothy A. Pedley MD, Jean Aicardi MD FRCP, Marc A. Dichter MD Ph.D., Solomon Moshé MD, Emilio Perucca MD, Michael Trimble MD. Epilepsy: A Comprehensive Textbook written and edited by world-renowned authorities, this three-volume work is, to quote a reviewer, "the definitive textbook about seizures and epilepsy". This...
National Academies Press, 2012. — 568 p. Although epilepsy is one of the nation's most common neurological disorders, public understanding of it is limited. Many people do not know the causes of epilepsy or what they should do if they see someone having a seizure. Epilepsy is a complex spectrum of disorders that affects an estimated 2.2 million Americans in a variety of ways,...
F. Guzetta. Progress in Epileptic Spasms and West Syndrome. John Libbey Eurotext Ltd 2007, 345 p. ISBN13: 978-2742006557. Since its first description (1841) the identity of West syndrome was deeply investigated and is now recognized as an epileptic syndrome in infancy (ILAE Task Force, 1989). West syndrome has become a paradigmatic model of an epileptic syndrome causing...
Milton: CRC Press LLC, 2019. — 559 p. This book brings together the ideas of an international group of experts on clinical and experimental epilepsy. These authors consider how antiepileptic drugs may act on elements of neuronal networks to reduce seizure incidence and severity. The book addresses such topics as the four general classes of anticonvulsant drug mechanisms, major...
Demos Medical, 2013. — 400 p. Unlike many other diagnostic procedures, EEG, now over 80 years old, and epilepsy monitoring, now over 40 years old, have demonstrated their usefulness and stood the test of time. Although the benefits of these diagnostic procedures are clear, monitoring is currently not available to the majority of patients in need. One of the factors limiting...
Rijeka: InTech, 2011. — 351 p. Psychosocial and Cultural Aspects of Epilepsy Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Daytime Sleepiness and Changes of Sleep in Patients with Epilepsy The Impact of Epilepsy on Reproductive Functions The Classification of Seizures and Epilepsy Syndromes Combined Neuro-Cardiogenic Epilepsy Syndromes and Novel Mechanistic Insights Sudden Unexpected Death in...
Frank W. Drislane status epilepticus. Humana Press 2007, 363 p. A panel of senior clinicians critically reviews the many forms of status epilepticus (SE), their causes, manifestations, methods of diagnosis, and appropriate treatments. The emphasis is on the disease as encountered by the clinician in the field and the importance of correct recognition and diagnosis. The authors...
5th ed. — Praeger, 2001. — 312 p. Although the history of epilepsy, one of the most common serious neurological disorders, can easily be traced back to ancient times, the modern understanding of the disease only began in the middle of the 19th century. This history of the first fifty years of modern epileptology reflects the thinking, accomplishments, and failures of physicians...
Springer, 2015. — 316 p. This book describes the specific surgical techniques currently employed in patients with intractable epilepsy; it also covers the relevant technical aspects of general neurosurgery. All of the approaches associated with the various foci of epilepsy within the cerebral hemispheres are considered, including temporal and frontal lobectomies and...
New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. - 226 p. Epilepsy requires careful management and monitoring through a woman’s life Epilepsy is a complex disease. The hormonal changes women experience, both day–to–day menstrual fluctuations and the longer waxes and wanings of a reproductive lifetime, make the management of epilepsy even more complicated. At some point, the well–being of a...
New York: Academic Press, 2016. — 382 p. Epilepsy is a devastating group of neurological disorders characterized by periodic and unpredictable seizure activity in the brain. There is a critical need for new drugs and approaches given than at least one-third of all epilepsy patients are not made free of seizures by existing medications and become "medically refractory". Much of...
Husain A. Practical Epilepsy, Demos medical 2015, 480 p. Written for busy practitioners and trainees, Practical Epilepsy is the only concise yet exhaustive reference encompassing the broad scope of clinical epilepsy. It contains core information for professionals who wish gain a breadth and depth of knowledge about epilepsy in a shorter amount of time than is required to read...
Demos Medical Publishing, 2016. — 468 p. — ISBN: 9781620700297. Written for busy practitioners and trainees, Practical Epilepsy is the only concise yet exhaustive reference encompassing the broad scope of clinical epilepsy. It contains core information for professionals who wish to gain a breadth and depth of knowledge about epilepsy in a shorter amount of time than is required...
New York: Humana Press, 1987. — 393 p. The idea for this book has evolved from our desire to present a conceptual approach to the study of neurotransmitters in epilepsy. Such an approach requires an understanding of the function of neurotransmitter systems in various experimental models of epilep sy. Toward this goal we have included in this book chapters on neurotransmitter...
New York: ITexLi , 2016. — 271 p. This book written by different authors from all over the world on different topics, including phenomenology, pathogenesis, and treatment in epilepsy. The modern data on these topics may be helpful for many specialists in the domain of epileptology. Epilepsy seems to represent one of the most frequent neurological diseases and occurs in about 1%...
Rijeka: ImTech, 2011. — 386 p. This book is a very provocative and interesting addition to the literature on Epilepsy. It offers a lot of appealing and stimulating work to offer food of thought to the readers from different disciplines. Around 5% of the total world population have seizures but only 0.9% is diagnosed with epilepsy, so it is very important to understand the...
New York: Academic Press, 2008. — 321 p. This edited reference addresses controversial clinical issues of the psychiatric aspects of epilepsy. The book explores the reasons behind the poor communication between psychiatrists and neurologists and suggests potential remedies to this important problem, and two chapters are devoted to examining whether psychiatrists and...
NY: Demos, 2005. — 305 p. Many patients referred for an epilepsy evaluation actually suffer from one of many conditions that can imitate it. Imitators of epilepsy are a diverse group that involve consideration of many areas of internal medicine, neurology, and psychiatry. The most important imitators of epileptic seizures are dizziness, vertigo, syncope, complicated migraine;...
Demos Medical Publishing, 2008. — 316 p. — ISBN13: 978-1933864105. The only comprehensive source of information on this frequently misdiagnosed problem, with information critical for physicians, ER and ICU doctors, and psychiatrists.
Imagine, 2018. — 133 p. — ASIN B079R3GYGY. With wit and humility, Alisa Kennedy Jones chronicles her experiences after a diagnosis of ecstatic epilepsy (also suffered by Dostoevsky, Van Gogh, Da Vinci and Agatha Christie). Beginning with the first in a series of terrifying yet beautiful grand mal seizures, which she likens to "swallowing a bolt of lightning," each seizure...
New York: Academic Press, 1998. — 573 p. Risk Factors for Epilepsy Overview Experimental Models of Cortical Malformations MRI Techniques for the Identification of Neuronal Migration Disorders: Practical Considerations Role of PET in Detection of Cerebral Dysgenesis Pathological Aspects of Cerebral Dysplasia Localized Cortical Dysgenesis and Epilepsy Sturge-Weber Syndrome:...
New York: Springer, 2017. — 360 p. Physiologic Basis of EEG and Epilepsy EEG Instrumentation, Montage, Polarity, and Localization Normal EEG Variants and Artifacts Neonatal EEG and Neonatal Seizures Ictal and Interictal EEG EEG and Semiology in Generalized Epilepsies EEG and Semiology in Focal Epilepsy Status Epilepticus EEG in Encephalopathy and Coma Electro-Clinical Syndromes...
John Libbey Eurotext, 2021. — 352 p. This updated version, written by international experts in clinical epileptology and EEG, comprehensively covers the clinical and EEG features of all epilepsy syndromes, proposes recording protocols based on the behavior of the diagnostic EEG features in each syndrome, and rates diagnostic confidence according to the findings in hand and the...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 247 p. Epilepsy is a frequently encountered disease, affecting 1-2% of the population, but one that is often mistreated due to misunderstandings of specific diagnoses and treatments. This practical manual provides a succinct and clinically relevant reference to routine clinical epilepsy care. The book is designed around the four...
Springer, 2015. — 220 p. This book explores the emergence of epilepsy as a purely neurological disorder, in the second half of the nineteenth century. It focuses on the world’s first neurological hospital, the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic in London, and on its leading figure, John Hughlings Jackson (1835-1911). Through an analysis of the National Hospital’s...
Handbooks in Health Care Company, 2006. — 274 p. Now in its 6th edition, this insightful text is an excellent resource for primary care physicians, neurologists, and residents in the treatment of epilepsy. The handbook includes full discussions of recently approved drugs for the treatment of epilepsy as well as experimental agents.
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 577 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-871466-8. No other neurological condition allows the same opportunities for intracranial electrophysiological study of the human brain as epilepsy does. What ensues is exponentially expanding knowledge of the human epileptic brain, as well as windows into the physiology of the normal human brain itself. In Invasive...
Singapore: Springer, 2017. — 340 p. Epilepsy, Status Epilepticus, and Refractory Status Epilepticus Epilepsy Definition of Epilepsy Classification of Epilepsy Refractory Epilepsy (RE) Status Epilepticus Definition of SE Classification of SE Definition and Classification of RSE Diagnosis of Convulsive Epilepsy and Status Epilepticus Convulsive Epilepsy Versus Nonepileptic...
London: Springer, 1987. - 404 p. Epilepsy is among the most common scourges afflicting the health of humankind and perhaps the most terrifying. In one form or another, it is suffered by one in everyone hundred people on earth, with a disproportionate prevalence at the early and late extremes of life. There is nothing sacred or sanctifying about it in spite of Hippoc rates'...
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2020. — 385 p. Deep brain stimulation has been used effectively for many years to treat patients suffering from Parkinson's disease. Now, neurologists and neurosurgeons are using electric pulse generators to block abnormal activity, i.e. epileptic fits. Promising research results indicate that electric pulses implanted deep in the brain can affect...
Informa Healthcare, 2008. — 1616 p. — ISBN13: 9780203091708. Textbook of Epilepsy Surgery covers all of the latest advances in the surgical management of epilepsy. The book provides a thorough understanding of epileptogenic mechanisms in etiologically different types of epilepsy and explains neuronavigation systems. It discusses new neuroimaging techniques, new surgical...
Springer, 2015. — 284 p. This book provides a comprehensive, rigorous review of the long-term outcome literature in epilepsy surgery in both adults and children. Each chapter examines the long-term outcome literature in a separate domain; covering seizure control, social, vocational/educational and psychiatric outcomes. Behavior and cognition are also discussed. The clinical...
Springer, 2012. — 525 p. This volume is intended to be a synopsis of seizure disorders with a goal of describing key studies in animals and humans. The translation of pertinent fi ndings from animal to human studies, and to potential human studies, is emphasized where possible. This volume is designed to facilitate translation and be synoptic in nature. The arrangement of...
New York: Springer, 1993. — 207 p. Advances in epilepsy in recent decades have allowed for improved algorithms for diagnosis and a common understanding of terminology with the development of the International Classifications of Seizures and the Epilepsies. Nevertheless, no common system exists for the estimation of epilepsy severity or its impact on quality of life. Therefore,...
Boca Raton: Taylor&Francis, 2005. — 878 p. Offering authoritative coverage of the vast array of major clinical issues in epilepsy surgery-from the selection of surgical candidates to presurgical evaluation, surgical techniques, and postoperative rehabilitation-this reference presents a series of essays on the principles and controversies in the field with focused segments that...
Berlin: Springer, 2003. — 439 p. A "brain defibrillator" may be closer than we think. An epileptic seizure involves a paroxysmal change in the activity of millions of neurons. Feedback control of seizures would require an implantable device that could predict seizure occurrence and then deliver a stimulus to abort it. To examine the feasibility of building such a device, this...
2nd edition. — Oxford University Press, 2014. — 384 p. — ISBN: 9780199985906 Atlas of EEG, Seizure Semiology, and Management, Second Edition, is a richly-illustrated guide to the performance and interpretation of EEG and management of epilepsy. Revised and updated in its Second Edition, this new text features hundreds of detailed EEGs, and covers the science in extensive scope...
Demos Medical, 2016. — 242 p. This high-yield review is designed as a primary study tool to help candidates prepare for the epilepsy certification exam. Using structured question formats typically encountered on boards, the book covers the base knowledge tested and allows users to assess their proficiency in a wide range of topics necessary to achieve subspecialty certification...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 310 p. This handbook assembles a team of experts to review the special problems faced by women with epilepsy. Epilepsy treatments affect fertility and can cause pregnancy complications and birth defects, but most of the available drugs have been tested on men. Moreover, hormone effects on seizures are of particular concern to women at...
New York: Springer, 2016. — 387 p. This book is an up-to-date, comprehensive review of the neuropsychiatry of epilepsy, by active authorities in the field, with an emphasis on clinical and management issues. A critical appraisal of the methodology and limitations of current research on the neuropsychiatry of epilepsy is provided, and unanswered questions and controversies are...
Academic Press, 2019. — 401 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-818620-6. Epilepsy is one of most frequent neurological disorders affecting about 50 million people worldwide and 50% of them have at least another medical problem in comorbidity; sometimes this is a the cause of the epilepsy itself or it is due to shared neurobiological links between epilepsy and other medical conditions; other...
New York: Academic Press, 2015. — 292 p. Patients with brain tumor-related epilepsy (BTRE) suffer from two serious pathologies simultaneously – a brain tumor and a secondary form of epilepsy. Although there has been remarkable progress in BTRE research in recent years, it remains an on-going challenge for clinicians and continues to stimulate much debate in the scientific...
John Libbey Eurotext 2011. — 90 p. A novel monograph on a narrow focused topic of epilepsy drug therapy. All the necessary information on 6 molecules called “orphan drugs” used in the treatment of some epileptic syndromes. More than half of epilepsies start before the age of 20 years and nearly 25% of them are refractory. Two problems arise: It is essential to treat them so...
5th Edition. — Oxford University Press, 2024. — 1752 p. — (Contemporary Neurology Series). — eBook ISBN: 9780197549490. This resource, considered the 'bible' of basic epilepsy research, offers encyclopedic coverage and in-depth discussions of leading research hypotheses and strategic approaches. Indispensable for students and all research scientists in the field of epilepsy...
Bethesda: National Center for Biotechnology Information, 2012. — 1264 p. H.H. Jasper, A.A. Ward, A. Pope and H.H. Merritt, chair of the Public Health Service Advisory Committee on the Epilepsies, National Institutes of Health, published the first volume on Basic Mechanisms of the Epilepsies (BME) in 1969. Their ultimate goal was to search for a "better understanding of the...
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2011. — 536 p. A collection of reports from two scientific conferences (Fourth International Workshop on Seizure Prediction and Sanibel Symposium -Nocturnal Frontal Lobe Epilepsy: An Interdisciplinary Perspective), covering a wide range of issues in epileptology, including anatomical aspects, mechanisms of generation of epidischarges, clinical...
London: Springer, 2010. — 1892 p. Atlas of Epilepsies is a landmark, all-encompassing, illustrated reference work and hands-on guide to the diagnosis, management and treatment of epilepsy in all its forms and across all age groups. The premier text in the field with over one thousand images, the Atlas’s highly illustrative approach tackles the difficult subject of epileptic...
L.: Springer. 2010. - 578 p. This revised edition is indispensable reading for all those who care for patients with epileptic seizures. Building on the sell-out success of the first edition this thorough revision reflects the latest report of the ILAE classification core group and the significant progress made in the diagnosis, classification and treatment of the epilepsies....
Gazelle Distribution Trade, John Libbey Eurotex, 2009. — 141 p. Epilepsy and migraine are two frequent chronic neurological disorders which have complex links. Their comorbidity is well established by epidemiological data. Both are characterised by recurrent epileptic or migrainous attacks, sometimes intermingled. Their clinical symptoms may overlap. Moreover, some drug...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 367 p. The purpose of the first and second edition of The Epilepsy Prescriber’s Guide to Antiepileptic Drugs was to help those involved in the treatment of patients with epilepsy to meet the challenge of having easy access to all relevant aspects of every antiepileptic medication currently available, including the newest ones. The...
3rd dition. — Springer, 2016. — 348 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-32908-6 This updated third edition of a successful book is a description of both pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic antiepileptic drug (AED) interactions, including details of the magnitude and mechanism of interactions, and also of drug combinations that are not associated with interactions and therefore can be...
Demos Medical, 2012. — 356 p. — ISBN13: 978-1936287253. The explosion of information in neurogenetics and metabolism mandates increasing awareness of appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic strategies in the setting of certain epilepsies, especially those of very early onset. There are over 200 inherited disorders that are associated with seizures and prompt identification and...
New York: Nova Science Pub Inc, 2010. — 369 p. Although clinical, neurological, biological, psychiatric and even therapeutic aspects of epilepsy have been fairly consistently reviewed, relatively little is known about the psycho-social aspects of this condition. The psycho-social consequences of epilepsy are arguably often more severe than the severity of epilepsy. Studies show...
New York: Academic Press, 2017. — 1104 p. Models of Seizures and Epilepsy, Second Edition, is a valuable, practical reference for investigators who are searching for the most appropriate laboratory models to address key questions in the field. The book also provides an important background for physicians, fellows, and students, offering insight into the potential for advances...
2nd edition. — Springer, 2016. — xiv, 339 p. This second edition of a successful book provides updated clinical and research knowledge, including information on the licensing of new antiepileptic drugs. All chapters are updated to reflect present accepted practice. New chapters highlighting the importance of the genetic aspects of epilepsy, nonpharmacological treatments, and...
Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, 2007. — 327 p. — ISBN: 9788184481181. This book on epilepsy has been particularly prepared for the use of a general practitioner as a help for diagnostic clarification and selection of proper antiepileptic drugs. However, the book is based on the International Concept of Epileptology, particularly regarding the terminology of epileptic...
New York: Springer, 1985. — 532 p. InJuly 1982 the first Dartmouth workshop on the corpus callosum took place. A nucleus of basic and clinical scientists was convened to give progress reports of their work on the corpus callosum. This text was subsequently compiled by the various participants from these reports modified by a stimulating cross fertilization of ideas and...
New York: Springer, 1995. — 309 p. In August of 1991, a second Dartmouth International Workshop on the corpus callosum was convened to share and discuss the progress that had been made over the decade that had passed following the first workshop. A nucleus of basic and clinical scientists came together to discuss their work and the work of others in a field that has been...
N.-Y.: Taylor & Francis, 2004. - 548 p. The most up-to-date reference on the topic, Epilepsy analyzes the most relevant research developments in parallel clinical issues impacting modern therapeutic regimens-defining the scientific basis of current clinical practices and posing a set of challenging questions and considerations that may impact the future of clinical epilepsy...
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2010. - 646 p. Pathophysiological mechanisms of seizures and epilepsy: a primer / Carl E. Stafstrom - Blood-brain barrier, blood flow, neoplasms, and epilepsy: the role of astrocytes / Luca Cucullo . [et al.] - Metabolic regulation of seizures and epileptogenesis / Manisha Patel - Brain inflammation and epilepsy / Teresa Ravizza . [et al.] - Drug...
Springer, 2013. — 329 p. Although more than 10 new antiepileptic drugs have been developed in the past decade, epilepsy remains resistant to drug therapy in about one third of patients, many of whom struggle with the disease their entire lives. Managing these patients is a challenge and requires a structured multidisciplinary approach. The book includes chapters on all issues...
Amsterdam: Academic Press, Elsevier, 2003. - 582 p. Overview. Noninvasive EEG in the definition of the irritative zone. Magnetoencephalography in the definition of the irritative zone. Invasive EEG in the definition of the irritative zone. Electrocorticography in the definition of the irritative zone: its role in the era of multi-channel EEG and modern neuroimaging. Automatic...
Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2016. — 237 p. Neurobiology of Epilepsy: From Genes to Networks is the latest volume in the Progress in Brain Research series that focuses on new trends and developments. This established international series examines major areas of basic and clinical research within the neurosciences, as well as popular and emerging subfields. Explores new trends and...
Academic Press, 2019. — 127 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-817426-5. This book provides the knowledge necessary to classify EEG brain signals to detect epileptic seizures using machine learning techniques. Chapters present an overview of machine learning techniques and the tools available, discuss previous studies, present empirical studies on the performance of the NN and SVM...
Springer, 2019. — 211 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-03510-5 This book contains the most essential information needed for an epilepsy/ EEG rotation. Chapters are formatted with bullet points and feature clinical pearls. Concise and easy-to-read, this quick reference provides neurology residents, clinical neurophysiology and epilepsy fellows, and other clinicians with the most critical...
Schachter S. Evidence-based management of epilepsy. Tfm Pub Ltd 2011, 228 p. The clinical management of patients with epilepsy and the associated medical literature are rapidly evolving. This book differs from other epilepsy textbooks by focusing specifically on topics where the available evidence is sufficiently well developed to be synthesised into straightforward summaries...
Demos Medical Publishing, 2008. — 554 p. Animal models Mechanisms underlying epilepsy and behavior Seizures and behavior Neuropsychologic function Neuropsychiatric and behavioral disorders in patients with epilepsy Effects of treatment on mood and neuropsychologic function in adults Epilepsy surgery Pediatric and adolescent epilepsy Other disorders associated with epilepsy that...
New York: Academic Press, 1997. — 287 p. Epilepsy is, after headache, the second most common neurological disorder. This book clarifies the many courses of action to take in treating patients with epilepsy. It presents current knowledge about seizures and epilepsy in a comprehensive, socially conscious, and clear manner. The editors have provided this information in a...
N.-Y.: Wiley-VCH, 2008. - 355 p. Comprising some 30 contributions, experts from around the world present and discuss recent advances related to seizure prediction in epilepsy. The book covers an extraordinarily broad spectrum, starting from modeling epilepsy in single cells or networks of a few cells to precisely-tailored seizure prediction techniques as applied to human data....
London: Martin Dunitz, 2002. — 476 p. In the field of epilepsy, original observations are often the key to diagnosis and successful treatment. Indeed, the acumen to recognize the unexpected or unusual case distinguishes astute physicians. Further, case observations may prompt and stimulate basic science experiments and well-controlled clinical research. Yet illustrative reports...
New York: Academic Press, 2008. — 504 p. Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders, and original observations in the field are often the key to diagnosis and successful treatment. Physicians new to the field as well as seasoned practitioners will benefit from more than one hundred case vignettes that explore the universe of epilepsy as it presents in daily...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. — 209 p. Epilepsy is more than just a physical condition; it has cultural, geographic, and historical significance which course deeper than the status of neurological entity, and which defy a single perspective. The End of Epilepsy? is a beautifully illustrated, authoritative, and engaging history of medical developments during the 'modern...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 258 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-27971-0. Epilepsy is amongst the most frequently encountered of neurological disorders, yet its diagnosis and management is fraught with pitfalls. Issues surrounding differential diagnosis, seizure type, underlying causes, EEG interpretations, treatment options and prognoses can often trip-up clinicians. This book is...
Elsevier, 2009. — 1795 p. Unique encyclopedia-style textbook on epilepsy and related pathology. For neurosureons, neurologists, physicians and patients.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. — 398 p. This book provides a thorough reappraisal of Status Epilepticus, the severest expression of epilepsy. In the light of modern research it rigorously examines current treatment, critically challenging existing tenets. A scheme of classification is proposed based not solely on seizure type but also on age, pathophysiological...
New York: Saunders, 2009. — 410 p. This title in the acclaimed Blue Books of Neurology series highlights advances in epileptology and new ways of managing seizure disorders. Contributors from around the world-most new to this volume-lend a global perspective and provide the latest thinking on the new and controversial issues surrounding epilepsy. You'll find detailed...
New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. — 1072 p. The Treatment of Epilepsy, fourth edition, is a comprehensive reference and clinical guide to the pharmacological, medical and surgical options available in the treatment of epilepsy. The text is compiled by a group of internationally renowned editors and contributors and is now in full color and extensively illustrated The first two...
3rd Edition. — N.-Y.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. — 1116 p. ISBN: 978-1-4051-8383-3. A practical reference to the medical and surgical treatment of epilepsy The third edition of The Treatment of Epilepsy has been thoroughly updated. It is a reference work, but has a strong practical bias, and is designed to assist neurologists, neurosurgeons and other clinicians at all levels who...
3rd edition. — N.-Y.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. — 431 p. Make your way through the epilepsy mazeEpilepsy is a complex neurological condition. There are many modern treatment options, and treatment should nowadays be tailored to an individual patient. But identification of the best therapy can be a labyrinthine process.The Handbook of Epilepsy Treatment provides a practical...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 833 p. Causation is an aspect of epilepsy neglected in the scientific literature and in the conceptualization of epilepsy at a clinical and experimental level. It was to remedy this deficiency that this book was conceived. The book opens with a draft etiological classification that goes some way to filling the nosological void. The...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. — 400 p. — (Oxford Textbooks in Clinical Neurology). Epilepsy is the most common serious neurological condition, affecting children and adults, and can occur in a variety of medical settings. It has many causes and many forms, and a variable prognosis. Mortality and morbidity are high, social and legal consequences can stretch well beyond...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 184 p. Epilepsy is a common condition, and approximately 3% of the general population will experience a seizure at some point in their lives. Part of the Oxford Neurology Library, this pocketbook is intended to serve as a practical guide for the busy clinician and to summarize, in a clear and concise manner, the clinical presentations,...
New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. — 50 p. ABC of Epilepsy provides a practical guide for general practitioners, and all those working in primary care, on the diagnosis, treatment and management of epilepsy, and for the continued monitoring and long term support of what is still a relatively poorly understood neurological disorder. This brand new title in the ABC series is highly...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. — 313 p. Roughly 3 million people in the United States have already been diagnosed with epilepsy and another 200,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. Worldwide, approximately 1 percent of the global population is diagnosed with epilepsy at some point in their lives. With the diagnosis come questions, concerns, and uncertainties from both...
N.-Y.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. — 288 p. Epilepsy care traditionally focuses on seizures, yet for most epilepsy sufferers, other interictal factors such as mood, cognitive abilities, and treatment adverse effects most influence how they feel and function day to day. Epilepsy and the Interictal State is a practical and comprehensive text that covers quality of life issues,...
Elsevier, 2012. — 548 p. — (Handbook of Clinical Neurology 107). — ISBN13: 978-0444528988. Epilepsy, Part I, Basic Principles and Diagnosis, Volume 107, in the Handbook of Clinical Neurology series offers a comprehensive review of our knowledge of the field today, including epidemiology, basic mechanisms, animal models, and topics of increasing interest such as the role of...
Elsevier, 2012. — 608 p. — (Handbook of Clinical Neurology 108). — ISBN13: 978-0444528995. Epilepsy, Part II, Treatment, Volume 108, provides a full description of epilepsy pathology and etiology, antiepileptic drug treatment, the approach to surgical evaluation and alternative procedures to be considered, in both children and adults, as well as brain stimulation and diet...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 214 p. Clinical case studies have long been recognized as a useful adjunct to problem-based learning and continuing professional development. They emphasize the need for clinical reasoning, integrative thinking, problem-solving, communication, teamwork and self-directed learning — all desirable generic skills for health care professionals....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 550 p. Conventional wisdom assumes that sleep is a resting state of the brain, with negligible activity of cortical neurons. Here, the author brings new evidence favoring the idea that during sleep, memory traces acquired while awake are consolidated. Mircea Steriade focuses on the coalescence of different sleep rhythms in...
Cham: Springer, 2022. — 354 p. This clinically-oriented collection of brain imaging results provides a unique and helpful approach to epilepsy evaluation. The atlas is divided into sections according to general clinical categories with each category including a collection of clinical examples that span the category. Each example includes images across the relevant imaging...
N.-Y.: Springer, 2014. - 238 p. A comprehensive collection of the most recent knowledge on the biological bases of various kinds of epilepsies and modern clinical approaches to their treatment. Epilepsy affects about 0.5-1% of the world's population (about 50,000,000 individuals) and the main goal of its treatment is to eliminate seizures without creating side effects. Despite...
Springer, 2014. — 196 p. Written by expert epilepsy clinicians from the Mayo Clinic, Epilepsy Case Studies: Pearls for Patient Care presents a wide variety of case histories drawn from “real life” experiences in people with seizures. Designed to stimulate the same deductive reasoning that is commonly used when seeing epilepsy patients in the clinic, this practical book presents...
Singapore: World Scientific, 2013. - 304 p. This book is to improve our understanding of mechanisms leading to seizures in humans and in developing new therapeutic options. The book covers topics such as recent approaches to seizure control, recent developments in signal processing of interest for seizure prediction, ictogenesis in complex epileptic brain networks, active...
World Scientific, 2013. — 302 p. This book is to improve our understanding of mechanisms leading to seizures in humans and in developing new therapeutic options. The book covers topics such as recent approaches to seizure control, recent developments in signal processing of interest for seizure prediction, ictogenesis in complex epileptic brain networks, active probing of the...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 360 p. Authors have assembled an international team of experts to review the most recent findings and explore the interface between epilepsy and behavior disorders. The authors discuss the classifications available and examine how adequate they are for defining the subtleties of behavioral changes in patients with neurological disorders....
2nd edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 237 p. — ISBN: 9780521154697 Research into the neuropsychiatry of epilepsy has become a central focus of interest in the last five years. Comorbidity of epilepsy with behavioral problems is now recognized widely, and the neuroscientific basis for such comorbidity is an active area of investigation. With an expanded...
Berlin: Springer, 1976. — 178 p. Although a number of studies have addressed epilepsy from a variety of qualitative and quantitative factors, relatively little systematic or multidisciplinary work has been reported to date. The general purpose of the present study was to analyze specific kinds of data from a large series of epileptic patients to focus the significance of the...
Springer, 2017. — 224 p. — ISBN10: 3319616773, 13 978-3319616773. This book presents scientific evidence about epilepsy along with straightforward guidance and recommendations. Responses to frequently asked questions and clarification of uncertainties are provided to empower patients to optimize their medical, psychological and social care. This book helps mediate between...
Springer, 2017. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 3319616773, 13 978-3319616773. This book presents scientific evidence about epilepsy along with straightforward guidance and recommendations. Responses to frequently asked questions and clarification of uncertainties are provided to empower patients to optimize their medical, psychological and social care. This book helps mediate between...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 502 p. — ISBN: 978-1-108-71890-5. Written by experts in the field, this book offers an up-to-date and systematic approach to understanding epilepsy. It focuses on advanced tools and therapies in diagnosis and management, and comprehensively yet simply covers the content of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology certification. Five...
People’s Medical Publishing House, 2009. — 489 p. A comprehensive, and up-to-date primer on the latest therapeutic advances in the management, and treatment of epilepsy. This Includes practical information on diagnostic criteria for all different syndromes along with detailed discussions of appropriate agents
6th edition. — Philadelphia: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2015. — 1068 p. Meet the challenges of epilepsy treatment with today’s best knowledge! Wyllie's Treatment of Epilepsy: Principles and Practice, 6th edition, provides a broad, detailed, and cohesive overview of seizure disorders and contemporary treatment options. Written by the most influential experts in the field...
2nd edition. — Springer Publishing Company, 2003. — 144 p. This book was written with the belief that accurate and comprehensible medical information can empower people with epilepsy to combat their disease. Reading Epilepsy: 199 Answers will help you to better understand your doctor's language and ask better questions. If you fill in the medical history section, keep your...
John Libey, 2004. — 200 p. Reflex epilepsies can provide a qualitative and quantitative viewpoint of the complexities of ictogenesis. The various chapters in this book examine the factors that can trigger a seizure, such as hot water, food, contact and movement, music and emotions. The relationship between several reflex epilepsy mechanisms and juvenile myoclonic epilepsy is...
Berlin: Springer, 1987. — 338 p. Rede zur Eröffnung der 37 Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie Otfrid Foerster and “Die Leitungsbahnen des Schmerzgefühls” (1927) Local Blood Flow and Local Metabolism in the Brain Determination of Regional Glucose Metabolism in the Brain by Positron Emission Tomography Using 18 F-Fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose. Relationships...
5th edition. — Lippincott, Willams and Wilkins, 2011. — 1040 p. In one convenient source, Wyllie's Treatment of Epilepsy: Principles and Practice provides a broad, detailed, and cohesive overview of seizure disorders and contemporary treatment options. For this Fifth Edition, the editors have replaced or significantly revised approximately 30 to 50 percent of the chapters, and...
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