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An Introduction to Epilepsy was developed by the Student & Resident Education Subcommittee of the American Epilepsy Society's Education Committee as an educational resource for students and faculty.
Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Basic Mechanisms Underlying Seizures and Epilepsy
- Chapter 2. Clinical Epilepsy
- I. Definitions and Epidemiology
- II. Evaluation After the First Seizure
- III. Treatment
- IV. Non-Drug Treatments of Epilepsy
- V. Epilepsy Surgery
- VI. Status Epilepticus
- VII. Neonatal Seizures
- VIII. Selected Pediatric Epilepsy Syndromes
- IX. Managing Pediatric Epilepsy
- X. Nonepileptic Seizures and Imitators of Epilepsy
- XI. Pregnancy and Epilepsy
- XII. Driving and Epilepsy
- References
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Appendix C
- Appendix D
- Appendix E: Case Studies
- Chapter 3. Neuropharmacology of Antiepileptic Drugs
- Chapter 4. Epilepsy Surgery
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