The spectrum of epilepsy

Epilepsy 2011 Section Three: The spectrum of epilepsy

Chapter 6: Neonatal seizures

R.M. Pressler

In this chapter:

• Aetiology
• Mechanism
• Clinical manifestation and classification
• Investigations
• Epileptic syndromes
• Treatment
• Prognosis

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Chapter 7: Severe paediatric epilepsy syndromes

C.D. Ferrie

In this chapter:

• What makes an epilepsy severe?
• Severe epilepsy syndromes of the neonatal period
• Severe epilepsy syndromes of infancy
• Severe epilepsy syndromes of childhood

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Chapter 8: Febrile convulsions - a practical guide

C.M. Verity

In this chapter:

• 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

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Chapter 9: Benign childhood seizure susceptibility syndromes

M. Koutroumanidis

In this chapter:

• 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

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Chapter 10: The significance of the syndromic diagnosis of the epilepsies

C.P. Panayotopoulos and M. Koutroumanidis

In this chapter:

• 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?

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Chapter 11: Idiopathic generalised epilepsies

M. Koutroumanidis

In this chapter:

• The seizures in IGE
• The syndromes of IGE
• Diagnosis and differentials
• Treatment
• Contraindicated AEDs

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Chapter 12: Adult onset epilepsies

D.W. Chadwick and F.J. Rugg-Gunn

In this chapter:

• Seizure types in adult epilepsies
• Causes of adult-onset epilepsy
• Epilepsy after cerebral infection

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Chapter 13: Temporal lobe epilepsy

J.S. Duncan

In this chapter:

• Epilepsy arising in the medial temporal lobe (limbic epilepsy)
• Epilepsy arising in the lateral temporal neocortex

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Chapter 14: Frontal lobe epilepsy

S.M. Sisodiya and M. Manford

In this chapter:

• Aetiology
• Clinical diagnosis
• Electroencephalography
• Imaging
• Frontal versus nonepileptic seizures
• Frontal lobe seizures versus parasomnias
• Autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy
• Treatment

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Chapter 15: Occipital and parietal lobe epilepsies

J.S. Duncan

In this chapter:

• 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

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Chaper 16: Psychiatric disorders in epilepsy

J. Foong

In this chapter:

• Ictal
• Peri-ictal
• Inter-ictal
• Treatment related psychiatric problems

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