Epilepsy in the Setting of Inherited Metabolic and Mitochondrial Disorders Linda D. Leary Douglas R. Nordli Jr. Darryl C. De Vivo There are more than 11,000 well-recognized and well-characterized inherited…
Epilepsy in the Setting of Neurocutaneous Syndromes Prakash Kotagal Deepak K. Lachhwani The neurocutaneous syndromes are a group of unrelated disorders characterized by congenital dysplastic abnormalities involving the skin and…
Epilepsy in the Setting of Cerebrovascular Disease Bernd Pohlmann-Eden Martin Del Campo Neil R. Friedman Deepak K. Lachhwani Cerebrovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of neurologic morbidity across all…
Posttraumatic Epilepsy Jayanthi Mani Elizabeth Barry With an estimated annual incidence between 180-220 cases per 100,000 members of the population (1,2), head injury causes significant morbidity and mortality (3). A…
Febrile Seizures Michael Duchowny Almost three decades ago, Livingston (1) observed that children with febrile seizures fared considerably better than those with epileptic convulsions not activated by fever; their prognosis…
Neonatal Seizures Robert R. Clancy Eli M. Mizrahi Neonatal seizures are a classic and ominous neurologic sign that can arise in any newborn infant. Their significance lies in their high…
Less Common Epilepsy Syndromes and Epilepsy Associated with Chromosomal Abnormalities Sophia Varadkar J. Helen Cross The past 10 years have seen a dramatic increase in the number of described epilepsy…
Epilepsy with Reflex Seizures Benjamin G. Zifkin Frederick Andermann DEFINITION AND CLASSIFICATION The seizures of reflex epilepsy are reliably precipitated by some identifiable factor (1). The International League Against Epilepsy…
Continuous Spike Wave of Slow Sleep and Landau-Kleffner Syndrome Brian Neville J. Helen Cross Epileptic encephalopathies are disturbances of cognition, behavior and motor control that occur with epileptic seizures and…
Rasmussen’s Encephalitis (Chronic Focal Encephalitis) François Dubeau Rasmussen encephalitis is a progressive disorder of childhood, associated with hemispheric atrophy, severe focal epilepsy, intellectual decline, and hemiparesis. Neuropathologic features described in…
