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Epilepsy 2011: Basic science

Chapter 3: Basic mechanisms of epilepsy

J.G.R. Jefferys

In this chapter:

  • Focal epileptic activity
    Generalised epilepsies

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Chapter 4: Neuropathology of epilepsy

M. Thom

In this chapter:

  • Post mortem studies in patients with epilepsy
    Post mortems in sudden death in epilepsy
    Surgical pathology of epilepsy
    Hippocampal sclerosis
    Focal cortical dysplasias
    Mild MCD (mild malformations of cortical development)
    Tumours and epilepsy
    Vascular malformations in epilepsy surgery
    Hamartomas in epilepsy surgery
    Rasmussen’s encephalitis

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Chapter 5 Molecular genetics of the epilepsies

R.A. Robinson, R.M. Gardiner and M. Johnson

In this chapter:

  • 'Primary' idiopathic mendelian epilepsies
    Mendelian disorders in which epilepsy forms part of the phenotype
    Non-mendelian epilepsies
    Murine genetic epilepsies

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