Aicardi's Epilepsy in Children has been completely revised to reflect the past ten years' advances in diagnosis and therapy.

Aicardi's Epilepsy in Children describes in detail the types of seizures occurring during infancy, childhood, and adolescence and explains the key principles of diagnosis, prognosis, and medical and surgical treatment.

This third edition provides up-to-the-minute information on anticonvulsant drugs and the genetics of epilepsy and includes a new chapter on epileptic encephalopathies.

Contents

General Aspects

1. Epilepsy: Overview and Definitions
2. Classification of Epileptic Seizures and Epilepsies

Epileptic Manifestations Relative to Age, Cause, Duration, and Precipation of Seizures

3. Infantile Spasms and Related Syndromes
4. Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome
5. Dravet Syndrome: Severe Myoclonic Epilepsy or Severe Polymorphic Epilepsy of Infants
6. Epilepsies with Predominantly Myoclonic Seizures
7. Myoclonic Epilepsies Associated with Progressive Degenerative Disorders: Progressive Myoclonic Epilepsies
8. Epilepsies Associated with Progressive Degenerative Disorders: Progressive Myoclonic Epilepsies
9. Epilepsies with Tonic-Clonic Seizures
10. Epilepsies Characterized by Partial Seizures
11. Landau-Kleffner Syndrome and Syndrome of Continuous Spike-Waves of Slow Sleep

Epileptic Manifestations Relative to Age, Cause, Duration, and Precipitation of Seizures

12. Neonatal Seizures
13. Epilepsy in Infants
14. Febrile Convulsions
15. Occasional Seizures Other Than Febrile Convulsions
16. States Epilepticus
17. Stimulus-Sensitive Epilepsies
18. Posttraumatic Seizures and Posttraumatic Epilepsy
19. Epilepsy as the Presenting Manifestation of Structural Brain Lesions
20. Genetics

Selected Aspects of Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Treatment of Convulsive Disorders in Children

21. Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis
22. General Aspects of Prognosis
23. General Principles of Management
24. Medical Treatment
25. Surgical Treatment

Index

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