Neupsy Key

1 CHAPTER Pathophysiology Cheolsu Shin The past decade has seen an explosion of the discovery of various genetic causes of many diseases, including epilepsy. With the rapid technological development in…

29 CHAPTER Newest Antiepileptic Drugs and Drugs in Development K. Nicole Mims and Aatif M. Husain Despite the approval of many new antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) in the past 20 years,…

44 CHAPTER EMU Safety Concerns Susan Hollar and Deborah LaBelle-Scarfo There are a variety of challenges, details, and protocols associated with epilepsy monitoring unit (EMU) admissions. While any inpatient admission…

42 CHAPTER Epilepsy and Sleep Erick N. Viorritto and Sujay M. Kansagra Even before the advent of EEG in the early twentieth century, clinical observation had borne out a connection…

41 CHAPTER Epilepsy and Headaches Timothy A. Collins Epilepsy and migraine have been discussed as having possible links since the late 1800s. In 1906, Gowers gave a series of lectures…

39 CHAPTER Social Issues David M. Labiner Living with epilepsy is fraught with difficulties not endured by individuals without epilepsy. Issues include the fact that individuals with epilepsy tend to…

37 CHAPTER Psychogenic Nonepileptic Events Jonathan J. Halford Nonepileptic events (NEEs) are episodes of altered movement, sensation, or experience resembling epileptic seizures which are not associated with ictal epileptiform discharges…

33 CHAPTER Alternative Therapies William L. Bell What is considered mainstream versus alternative therapies in medicine is very dependent on time and geography. The late nineteenth-century classic texts by Gowers…

24 CHAPTER Other Techniques Saurabh R. Sinha Beyond the commonly used diagnostic modalities (eg, scalp and intracranial EEG, MRI and other imaging techniques, neuropsychological testing), there are several new/emerging techniques…

22 CHAPTER Wada Test Adriana Palade Patients with medically refractory epilepsy commonly undergo a Wada test (or intracarotid amobarbital procedure) as part of the presurgical workup for anterior temporal lobectomy….