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Neonatal seizures
Chapter 6
RM Pressler
In this article:
Aetiology
Mechanism
Clinical manifestation and classification
Investigations
Epileptic syndromes
Treatment
Prognosis
Severe paediatric epilepsy syndromes
Chapter 7
C D Ferrie
In this article:
What makes an epilepsy severe?
Severe epilepsy syndromes of the neonatal period
Severe epilepsy syndromes of infancy
Severe epilepsy syndromes of childhood
Febrile convulsions - a practical guide
Chapter 8
CM Verity
In this article:
Definitions
Incidence, prevalence and recurrence
Aetiology
Outcome after febrile convulsions
Studies of outcome after febrile convulsions
Neurological impairment
Intellectual outcome
Behaviour
Outcome after febrile convulsions - conclusions
Clinical characteristics
Management
Acute therapy
Prophylactic treatment
Continuous prophylactic anticonvulsants
Benign childhood seizure susceptibility syndromes
Chapter 9
M Koutroumanidis
In this article:
Rolandic epilepsy (benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes)
Panayiotopoulos syndrome
Idiopathic childhood occipital epilepsy (Gastaut)
Pathophysiology and a unified concept of benign childhood seizure susceptibility syndromes
Treatment
The significance of the syndromic diagnosis of the epilepsies
Chapter 10
CP Panayotopoulos and M Koutroumanidis
In this article:
Classification of epileptic syndromes and diseases
Seizure/symptom diagnosis
Syndrome/disease diagnosis
The significance of specifying the type of ‘epilepsy’
Epilepsy or epilepsies? Is this controversial?
Idiopathic generalised epilepsies
Chapter 11
M Koutroumanidis
In this article:
The seizures in IGE
The syndromes of IGE
Diagnosis and differentials
Treatment
Contraindicated AEDs
Adult onset epilepsies
Chapter 12
DW Chadwick and FJ Rugg-Gunn
In this article:
Seizure types in adult epilepsies
Causes of adult-onset epilepsy
Epilepsy after cerebral infection
Temporal lobe epilepsy
Chapter 13
JS Duncan
In this article:
Epilepsy arising in the medial temporal lobe (limbic epilepsy)
Epilepsy arising in the lateral temporal neocortex
Frontal lobe epilepsy
Chapter 14
SM Sisodiya and M Manford
In this article:
Aetiology
Clinical diagnosis
Electroencephalography
Imaging
Frontal versus nonepileptic seizures
Frontal lobe seizures versus parasomnias
Autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy
Treatment
Occipital and parietal lobe epilepsies
Chapter 15
JS Duncan
In this article:
Seizures with somatosensory symptomatology
Seizures with visual symptomatology
Other seizure phenomena from occipital and parietal regions
Provoking and associated/accompanying features
Aetiology
Electroencephalographic features
Treatment
Psychiatric disorders in epilepsy
Chaper 16
J Foong
In this article:
Ictal
Peri-ictal
Inter-ictal
Treatment related psychiatric problems
Articles are taken from Epilepsy 2009: From Benchside to Bedside, A Practical Guide to Epilepsy. 12th ed (2009). Edited by: JW Sander, MC Walker and JE Smalls. Published by: International League Against Epilepsy (UK Chapter) and The National Society for Epilepsy.
ISBN 978 0 9519552 6 0
ISBN 0 9519552 4 1
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