Product Description: This collection of frank, first-person narratives by people with epilepsy from 21 countries offers unique perspectives on the personal and social aspects of seizure disorders. Reflecting a diverse array of cultures, the narratives reveal many common concerns and show the distinct ways that people around the world affected by epilepsy react to the diagnosis and cope with their families, friends, and communities...read more

Product Description: A collection of personal stories from friends, family members, and co-workers of people with epilepsy in which they describe their observations and feelings about witnessing seizures and about the person with epilepsy. Epilepsy in Our View shed light on the social consequences of epilepsy while increasing understanding of what's happening when a person has a seizure...read more

Product Description: The book reveals, for the first time, the wide range of emotions, challenges and triumphs experienced by those who work with epilepsy patients and their families. The book also records the profound, uplifting and often heartbreaking experiences of practitioners with seizures who have come to understand, first hand, the perspective of patients with epilepsy...read more

Product Description: Gain insight as you read the stories of women living with epilepsy-- told in their own words. Women discuss the impact of epilepsy on their roles as mothers, wives, and individuals, and express their concerns about how epilepsy will affect pregnancy outcome, the health of their babies, and parenting...read more

Product Description: A collection of 68 personal accounts of seizure activity from people with epilepsy that illustrates the wide range of experiences associated with seizures and living with epilepsy. Many have had epilepsy for years, and their passages are heartfelt and realistic...read more

Product Description: "Epilepsy is a difficult illness to control up to 35% of patients do not respond fully to traditional medical treatments. For this reason, many sufferers choose to rely on or incorporate complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) into their treatment regimens...read more

Product Description: Visions: Artists Living with Epilepsy is the art of epilepsy, captured in a book. You will discover beautiful, insightful, haunting images that reveal the souls of artists touched by epilepsy. * Contains 200+ high-quality reproductions of works of art* Includes the artists biographies* CD-ROM of the artwork is also available separately or as part of the Deluxe Editio...read more

Product Description: This collection of frank, first person narratives by people with epilepsy from 21 countries offers unique perspectives on the personal and social aspects of seizure disorders. Reflecting a diverse array of cultures, the narratives reveal many common concerns and show the distinct ways that people around the world affected by epilepsy react to the diagnosis and cope with their families, friends, and communities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: From pediatric to the elderly, from contractible to refractive, epilepsy is an illness that manifests in many forms and across a range of demographics. In this fascinating volume, the author details more than one hundred instances where health care practitioners faced unusual challenges in treating the disease...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This comprehensive clinical reference focuses on the challenges faced by neurologists in the management of epilepsy patients suffering from other medical conditions. This is the only book available that provides information on how to treat the unique problems of epilepsy patients who have concomitant medical conditions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This enlightening book presents firsthand personal accounts written by women with seizure disorders. In their own words, these patients vividly describe the experiences of coping with seizures, undergoing treatment, and coming to terms with the impact of epilepsy on their lives and relationships...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book tackles some of the common and difficult problems encountered by the clinical neurologist by providing practical guidance. The contributors approach the clinical challenges presented from their own points of view. Up-to-date references support the claims for preferred therapeutical and surgical treatments...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This insightful book presents real-life stories by health care professionals from around the world who work with people with epilepsy. Physicians, nurses, social workers, EEG technologists, and other professionals share the emotions they experience in encounters with epilepsy patients and their families...read more

Product Description: Renowned as a pioneer in behavioral neurology, the late Dr. Norman Geschwind was mentor and role model to the world's leading neurologists and behavioral scientists. In this volume, 31 of Dr. Geschwind's most eminent colleagues present their personal recollections of him and demonstrate his influence on their own personal and professional growth and achievements...read more

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Epilepsy is, after headache, the second most common neurological disorder. This book clarifies the many courses of action to take in treating patients with epilepsy. It presents current knowledge about seizures and epilepsy in a comprehensive, socially conscious, and clear manner. The editors have provided this information in a comprehensive, easy-to-use, and practical form.This short, simple pedagogical guide to the diagnosis and management of epilepsy is an important reference work for all medical schools, hospitals, clinics, and primary care centers. This book integrates the latest research into essential reviews on:* Initial management of patients with seizures* Neuroradiological evaluation of epilepsy* Psychosocial aspects of epilepsy* Neuropsychologic problems associated with epilepsy* Psychiatric disorders* Diagnosis and treatment of status epilepticus* Nonepileptic seizures* Ambulatory EEG monitoring* Epilepsy surgery* Endocrine aspects of partial seizures* Epilepsy in the elderly

Presents information about the condition of epilepsy, what it is like to have seizures, the different kinds of seizures, and the effects of epilepsy on the individual and the family. (view table of contents)

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