CHAPTER 10First Seizure Clinic, Differential Diagnosis Dominic Heaney The presentation of a first seizure is a critical moment. Sometimes, diagnosis is straightforward if clear eyewitness accounts, recurrence patterns, and supportive…
CHAPTER 3The Spectrum of Seizures and Epilepsies Umair J. Chaudhary and Beate Diehl EVOLUTION OF SEIZURE AND EPILEPSY CLASSIFICATION Seizures are heterogeneous clinical phenomena, requiring a standardised classification system to…
CHAPTER 4Risk Factors for Epilepsy Simona Balestrini and Sanjay M. Sisodiya A risk factor increases the likelihood of disease but does not fully explain its occurrence, while a cause fully…
CHAPTER 2Epidemiology and Natural History Ley Sander EPIDEMIOLOGY Epidemiology measures the distribution and dynamics of conditions within the general population, including the incidence, prevalence and outcomes.1–3 Establishing the precise epidemiological…
CHAPTER 1What Is Epilepsy? Ley Sander WHEN IT IS EPILEPSY Epilepsy is an ongoing predisposition to recurrent, unprovoked epileptic seizures in a person, resulting from many underlying neurological or somatic…
CHAPTER 5Genetics of Epilepsy Simona Balestrini and Sanjay M. Sisodiya Rare epilepsy syndromes, often with early onset, can be caused by rare or unique single‐nucleotide variants (SNV), copy number variants…
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