The Causes of Epilepsy (1st ed): Common and Uncommon Causes in Adults and Children

Authors/Editors

Simon Shorvon
Frederick Andermann
Renzo Guerrini

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

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Length: 808 pp
Cost: $276.00
Type: Hardback
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Causation is an aspect of epilepsy neglected in the scientific literature and in the conceptualization of epilepsy at a clinical and experimental level. It was to remedy this deficiency that this book was conceived. The book opens with a draft etiological classification that goes some way to filling the nosological void. The book is divided into four etiological categories: idiopathic, symptomatic, cryptogenic, and provoked epilepsies. Each chapter considers topics in a consistent fashion, dealing with the phenomenon of epilepsy in each etiology, including its epidemiology, clinical features and prognosis, and any specific aspects of treatment. The book is a comprehensive reference work, a catalogue of all important causes of epilepsy, and a clinical tool for all clinicians dealing with patients who have epilepsy. It is aimed at epileptologists and neurologists and provides a distillation of knowledge in a form that is helpful in the clinical setting.

Published June 2011 (note: 2nd ed to be published November 2018)

ISBN: 9780521114479

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