Year: 2007
Type: book-review
Abstract: Epilepsy is a heterogeneous disorder with myriad causes, manifestations, treatments, and prognoses.Pediatric epilepsies in particular are often a source of confusion for students, trainees, and primary care physicians.The concise and wellwritten third edition of Epilepsy in childhood and adolescence by two UK-based epileptologists is aimed at this audience.The book can be read over the course of one or two evenings and provides in the course of 14 chapters an overview of the manifestations, diagnosis, and management of childhood epilepsy.The introductory chapter covers the epidemiology of childhood epilepsy and seizures, and their consequences.The way these numbers are presented may be useful to clinicians counseling patients and parents.In subsequent chapters, the authors discuss the diagnosis and classification of childhood epilepsy and seizure semiology.The diagnostic framework for epilepsy is currently under revision so both the old and new International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) diagnostic schemes are provided.This may be somewhat confusing to the uninitiated, but the authors do a good job of explaining the differences and justification for the new scheme.Most of the epilepsy syndromes are cursorily covered in sidebars and
Source: Neurology
Author: Daniel Friedman
Language: English
Subfield: Psychiatry and Mental health
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1978299123