Epilepsy /

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Imprint:Edinburgh : Elsevier, 2012.
Description:2 v. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Language:English
Series:Handbook of clinical neurology, 0072-9752 ; 3rd ser., v. 107-108
Handbook of clinical neurology ; 3rd ser., v. 107-108.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8963427
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Other authors / contributors:Stefan, Hermann.
Theodore, William H.
ISBN:9780444528988 (pt. 1)
0444528989 (pt. 1)
9780444528995 (pt. 2)
0444528997 (pt. 2)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Section 1. Basic Mechanisms
  • 1. Molecular Basis of Acquired Epileptogenesis
  • 2. Cellular bases of focal and generalised epilepsies
  • 3. Epilepsy as a dynamic disease of neuronal networks
  • 4. Animal models
  • 5. Classification of epilepsies and seizures: historical perspective and future directions
  • 6. The epidemiology of the epilepsies
  • 7. Maturation of the human brain and epilepsy
  • 8. Genetics of idiopathic epilepsies
  • 9. The genetics of focal epilepsies
  • 10. Inflammation and epilepsy
  • Section 2. Diagnosis
  • 11. Age related epileptic encephalopathies
  • 12. Epileptic syndromes with focal seizures of childhood and adolescence
  • 13. Idiopathic generalised epilepsies
  • 14. Temporal lobe epilepsy
  • 15. Extratemporal epilepsies
  • 16. Reflex epilepsies
  • 17. Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures
  • 18. Syncope
  • 19. Sleep and epilepsy
  • 20. Electroencephalography and video-electroencephalography
  • 21. Magnetoencephalography
  • 22. Structural brain imaging
  • 23. Functional MR imaging: focus localisation
  • 24. Functional MR: functional mapping
  • 25. Magnetic resonance spectroscopy in epilepsy
  • 26. Epilepsy diagnosis: PET
  • 27. Per-ictal single photon emission computed tomography: principles and applications in epilepsy evaluation
  • 28. Clinical neuropsychology in epilepsy: theoretical and practical issues
  • 29. Neuropsychiatric complications of epilepsy