The Treatment of Epilepsy

The Treatment of Epilepsy, fourth edition, is a comprehensive reference and clinical guide to the pharmacological, medical and surgical options available in the treatment of epilepsy.

• The text is compiled by a group of internationally renowned editors and contributors and is now in full color and extensively illustrated
• The first two sections cover the background to, and principles of, treatment in different clinical situations
• Section three comprises a series of systematic reviews of contemporary drug therapy, devoting one chapter to each anti-epileptic drug and covering all clinically-relevant aspects
• Section four focuses on the surgical options, devoting individual chapters to each of the modalities of presurgical assessment and to each surgical operation or approach
• This 4th edition is extensively revised incorporating the many recent developments in therapy, and comprises 81 chapters from world experts from 18 countries

Nyckelord:

Simon Shorvon

Emilio Perucca

Jerome Engel Jr

The Treatment of Epilepsy

Epilepsy

Neurology

Neurological

Neurosurgery

Anti-epileptic drugs

AEDs

International League of Epilepsy

Pediatric dosing

American Academy of Neurology

American Epilepsy Society

International Epilepsy Conference

Pharmacokinetic

Acetazolamide

Adrenocorticotropic hormone and corticosteroids

Benzodiaze-pines used in epilepsy

Brivaracetam

Carbamazepine

Eslicarbazepine acetate

Ethosuximide

Felbamate

Gabapentin

Lacosamide

Lamotrigine

Levetiracetam

Oxcarbazepine

Perampanel

Phenobarbital, primidone

barbiturates

Phenytoin

Piracetam

Pregabalin

Retigabine

Rufinamide

Stiripentol

Tiagabine

Topiramate

Valproate ,  ,  ,  ,  ,

Vigabatrin

Zonisamide

Epilepsy syndromes

Childhood epilepsy

Adult epilepsy

, Epilepsy