Product Description: Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy: Mechanisms and New Methods for Analyzing Risks builds on earlier works focusing on the clinical problem of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP). This book presents a methodology for identifying and classifying clusters of risks that lead to SUDEP...read more

Product Description: What are the consequences, if any, of repeated brief seizures that are the defining feature of epilepsy? A firm answer to this question has been surprisingly elusive for a variety of reasons. Clearly there is a subset of patients who appear to tolerate seizures with relatively limited long-term consequences, and not all patients are destined to progress to intractability with frequent seizures and disability...read more

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

Product Description: First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: The book offers a comprehensive neuropsychiatric view of complex partial seizures, simple partial seizures, and the various interictal disorders, including interictal psychosis and interictal personality syndrome.Throughout the text, clinical examples are liberally utilized, helping to familiarize the reader with the complex and varied presentations of these disorders...read more

Product Description: Gives a comprehensive overview of the effects of epilepsy on behavior and reviews current knowledge in the field. Various behavioral changes occurring in epilepsy are examined including mini personality alterations, cognitive and intellectual changes and major psychiatric disorders such as psychosis and depression...read more

Product Description: In this volume, a noted behavioral neurologist describes the various manifestations of psychosis in epileptic patients, reviews the mechanisms for development of psychosis, and offers practical advice on treatment. Of special value are the authoritative guidelines on use of anticonvulsants in patients with psychotic conditions, pharmacologic treatment of ictal and interictal psychoses, and indications for ECT...read more

Product Description: While mental illness in epileptics has been studied extensively from a biological perspective, little serious attention has been paid to the role of nonbiological factors. This well-balanced volume, written by an international group of researchers and epileptologists, is the first to bring together recent, and in some cases, previously unpublished research on the social precursors of psychopathology in epilepsy...read more