Epilepsy is a common condition, and approximately 3% of the general population will experience a seizure at some point in their lives. Part of the Oxford Neurology Library, this pocketbook is intended to serve as a practical guide for the busy clinician and to summarize, in a clear and concise manner, the clinical presentations, differential diagnosis and investigations and management of this condition, in children and adults. The treatment of epilepsy has been much improved in recent years by the introduction of many new and effective antiepileptic drugs--and this book places strong emphasis...

Derived from the textbook, The treatment of epilepsy, this concise practical handbook emphasizes clinical management and decision making for neurologists as they are treating patients with this chronic neurological disorder. The authors also include a formulary of drugs used to help manage epilepsy.

Practitioners and researchers from a broad range of disciplines and three continents review the status of magnetic resonance imaging and scanning in epilepsy, and the current research and where is it likely to lead. The 53 papers, from a workshop in Chalfont St Peter, England, October 1992, discuss

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The Treatment of Epilepsy, fourth edition, is a comprehensive reference and clinical guide to the pharmacological, medical and surgical options available in the treatment of epilepsy.

• The text is compiled by a group of internationally renowned editors and contributors and is now in full color and extensively illustrated
• The first two sections cover the background to, and principles of, treatment in different clinical situations
• Section three comprises a series of...