Driving and Social Issues in Epilepsy
Driving and Social Issues in Epilepsy Joseph F. Drazkowski Joseph I. Sirven A person with epilepsy faces many social concerns that are taken for granted by those without the disorder…
Psychiatric Comorbidity of Epilepsy
Psychiatric Comorbidity of Epilepsy Steven C. Schachter Epilepsy is a model for brain-behavior relationships. Seizures affect behavior, and behavior affects seizures. Psychiatric comorbidity is common among patients with epilepsy, the…
Cognitive Effects of Epilepsy and of Antiepileptic Medications
Cognitive Effects of Epilepsy and of Antiepileptic Medications Kimford J. Meador COGNITIVE DEFICITS IN EPILEPSY As a group, individuals with epilepsy have impaired cognitive performance in comparison to healthy subjects…
Outcome and Complications of Epilepsy Surgery
Outcome and Complications of Epilepsy Surgery Deepak K. Lachhwani Elaine Wyllie The past decade has seen epilepsy surgery rise favorably in the ranks of treatment options for medically refractory seizures….
Newer Operative and Stereotactic Techniques and Their Application to Hypothalamic Hamartoma
Newer Operative and Stereotactic Techniques and Their Application to Hypothalamic Hamartoma A. Simon Harvey Jeremy L. Freeman Hypothalamic hamartomas (HHs), or hamartomata, are congenital, tumor-like malformations of the tuber cinereum…
Corpus Callosotomy and Multiple Subpial Transections
Corpus Callosotomy and Multiple Subpial Transections Michael C. Smith Richard Byrne Andres M. Kanner CORPUS CALLOSOTOMY Corpus callosotomy was first introduced as a surgical treatment for medically intractable epilepsy by…
Epilepsy Surgery in Infants and Children
Epilepsy Surgery in Infants and Children Ajay Gupta Elaine Wyllie William E. Bingaman Surgery is now a well-established treatment for adults and children with medically intractable seizures (1, 2, 3,…
Epilepsy Surgery in the Absence of a Lesion on Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Epilepsy Surgery in the Absence of a Lesion on Magnetic Resonance Imaging Elson L. So Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a prerequisite in the evaluation of patients for epilepsy surgery….
Hemispherectomy: Medications, Technical Approaches, and Results
Hemispherectomy: Medications, Technical Approaches, and Results José Luis Montes Jean-Pierre Farmer Frederick Andermann Chantal Poulin HISTORICAL AND BACKGROUND CONSIDERATIONS Walter Dandy first described hemispherectomy as a surgical technique in 1928…
Epilepsy Surgery in Focal Malformations of Cortical Development
Epilepsy Surgery in Focal Malformations of Cortical Development Jorge A. González-Martánez Imad M. Najm William E. Bingaman Paul Ruggieri Focal malformations caused by abnormal cortical development (MCD) are the pathologic…
