ICU Continuous EEG Monitoring
14 CHAPTER ICU Continuous EEG Monitoring Keith E. Dombrowski The advent of digital video EEG (vEEG) recording has created unique opportunities in the hospital, particularly in the intensive care unit…
Brain Mapping and Monitoring
19 CHAPTER Brain Mapping and Monitoring Sandra Serafini, Merlise Clyde, Aatif M. Husain, and Michael Haglund Either in the presence or in the absence of a lesion, once a patient…
Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy
43 CHAPTER Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy Abeer J. Hani and Rodney A. Radtke Mortality in people with epilepsy can be attributed to one of three causes: epilepsy-related causes, causes…
Metabolic Epilepsies
40 CHAPTER Metabolic Epilepsies Abeer J. Hani and Mohamad A. Mikati The spectrum of metabolic conditions causing epilepsy continues to expand, allowing for further identification of the etiologies of various…
Reproductive Issues
35 CHAPTER Reproductive Issues Lynn Liu HISTORY Historically, people with epilepsy (PWE) around the world have been stigmatized due to misconceptions about seizures. In ancient times they were typically thought…
Neonatal Seizures
5 CHAPTER Neonatal Seizures William B. Gallentine Seizures occur frequently in the newborn period, more commonly than in any other time period across the lifespan. They have been associated with…
Functional Neuroimaging
21 CHAPTER Functional Neuroimaging Jorge Oldan, Terence Wong, and Jeffrey Petrella Functional imaging, referring here to nuclear techniques such as PET and SPECT, as well as functional magnetic resonance imaging…
Second-Generation Antiepileptic Drugs
27 CHAPTER Second-Generation Antiepileptic Drugs Kathryn Idol Xixis, Roha Khalid, and Mohamad A. Mikati In 1993, a new era in antiepileptic drug (AED) treatment commenced. After a hiatus of almost…
Neuropsychological Evaluation
23 CHAPTER Neuropsychological Evaluation Phillip D. Ruppert and Sarah E. Cook In the United States, there are approximately 200,000 new epilepsy diagnoses made each year, and approximately 3 million Americans…
Epileptic Seizures
3 CHAPTER Epileptic Seizures Matthew W. Luedke and Rodney A. Radtke Recent advances in epilepsy and neurophysiology have naturally made the field more complex. As video electroencephalography (vEEG), continuous EEG…
