Epilepsy: A Comprehensive Textbook, Second edition is thoroughly updated and provides a complete print and multimedia package: the three-volume set plus access to an integrated content Website.

More than 300 chapters cover the spectrum of biology, physiology, and clinical information, from molecular biology to public health concerns in developing countries.

Included are:

• detailed discussions of seizure types and epilepsy syndromes
• relationships between physiology and clinical events
• psychiatric and medical comorbidity
• conditions that could be mistaken for epilepsy
• an increasing range of pharmacologic, surgical, and alternative therapies, including vagus nerve stimulation and deep brain stimulation

This edition describes many new antiepileptic drugs, major advances in surgical treatment, and state-of-the-art neuroimaging, EEG, and other technologies for diagnosis and seizure prediction.

Partial Contents

Volume One

1. Epidemiology, Pathology, and Genetics of Epilepsy
2. The Neurobiology of Epilepsy
3. Phenomenology
4. diagnostic Evaluation

Volume Two

5. General Treatment Considerations
6. Antiepileptic Drugs
7. Surgical Therapy
8. Clinical Biology of Epilepsy

Volume Three

9. Psychiatric and Social Issues
10. Epilepsy Syndromes
11. Disorders that can be Confused with Epilepsy
12. Delivery of Health Care and Socioeconomic Issues

Subject Index

Index

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