Description

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 the purely medical, and its management is often poor.

Part of the Oxford Textbooks in Clinical Neurology (OTCN) series, this volume covers the scientific basis, clinical diagnosis, and treatment of epilepsy and epileptic seizures. Written by internationally-renowned specialists, each chapter comprehensively covers the current knowledge and evidence base related to each aspect of the disorder, with an emphasis on the personal experience of the authors.

Table Content

1:Neurophysiology of epilepsy

2:Neurogenetics of epilepsy

3:Neurochemistry of epilepsy

4:Developmental neurobiology, neuroanatomy, and neuropathology of epilepsy

5:Definitions and epidemiology of epilepsy

6:The causes of epilepsy

7:Classification, clinical symptoms, and syndromes

8:Differential diagnosis of epilepsy

9:EEG in the investigation of epilepsy

10:Neuroimaging in the Investigation of epilepsy

11:The biochemical, haematological, histological, immunological, and genetic investigation of epilepsy

12:Non-pharmacological therapy of epilepsy

13:Reproductive aspects of epilepsy

14:Neonatal seizures and infantile onset epilepsies

15:Epileptic encephalopathies

16:Principles of treatment of epilepsy in children and adolescents

17:Epilepsy in learning disability

18:Epilepsy in the elderly

19:Psychiatric co-morbidity in epilepsy

20:Epilepsy due to traumatic brain injury (TBI), cerebrovascular disease (CVD), central nervous system (CNS) infections and brain tumours

21:Epilepsy in renal, hepatic, and other conditions

22:Management of patients with first seizure and early epilepsy

23:The medical treatment of chronic active epilepsy

24:Epilepsy in remission

25:Drug interactions

26:The pharmacokinetics and clinical therapeutics of the antiepileptic 
drugs

27:Principles of epilepsy surgery

28:Resective surgery of temporal lobe epilepsy

29:Resective surgery of extra-temporal epilepsy

30:Vagal berve stimulation and deep brain stimulation in epilepsy

31:Other surgeries for epilepsy and new approaches

32:Management of seizures and of epilepsy in the emergency 
department

33:The management of status epilepticus on the intensive care unit

34:Epilepsy and employment

35:Sexual and emotional behaviour in epilepsy

36:Cognition and memory in adults

37:Legal aspects of epilepsy and epilepsy and driving