INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Epilepsy guidelines mean different things to different people, probably related to the wide variety of guidelines that are in existence. This chapter discusses the role that…
OVERVIEW Print Section Listen Seizures are most common in the neonatal period (defined as the first 28 days of life or up to 44 weeks conceptional age) compared to any…
OVERVIEW Print Section Listen As discussed in Chapter 1, classification of epileptic seizure types has practical importance but also significant limitations. Historically used terms may not accurately reflect the complex…
OVERVIEW Print Section Listen In 2001, ILAE Commission on Classification and Terminology proposed a diagnostic scheme of epilepsy that included a new concept of epileptic encephalopathy in which epileptic abnormalities…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Structural and functional imaging is employed to help identify candidates for surgery, to plan surgical approaches, and to inform likelihood of favorable outcome. The primary role…
OVERVIEW Print Section Listen Benign familial neonatal convulsions (BFNC) and benign nonfamilial neonatal convulsions (BNFNC) should be suspected in healthy-looking neonates with no interictal neurological deficit. These syndromes should be…
OVERVIEW Print Section Listen For any doctor looking after children with epilepsy, an essential skill is interpretation of the MRI. But, even in centers of imaging excellence, accurate clinical and…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen An essential step in EEG interpretation is the identification of features that are statistically deviant compared to normative data, a process that defines abnormalities and establishes…
OVERVIEW Print Section Listen Epileptic seizures are stereotypical patterns of abnormal synchronized activity among different cellular populations. They are products of pathological activation of networks involved in controlling the temporal…
CLINICAL EVALUATION Print Section Listen Ictal symptoms and signs reflect area(s) of the brain involved in the seizure. Events early in the seizure have greater localizing value than later ones…
