Reflex Epilepsies: Progress in Understanding (Current Problems in Epilepsy, Volume 19) - Softcover

P Wolf

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2742005404 ISBN 13: 9782742005406

Publisher: John Libbey Eurotext (FR), 2004

Synopsis

A reference book written by distinguished epileptologists from around the world gathered in June 2001 at the 12th International Bethel-Cleveland Epilepsy Symposium to discuss and bring up to date our knowledge of the reflex epilepsies. It reports progress in the understanding of reflex epilepsies and describes how the study of reflex seizures helps us to better understand epilepsy itself.

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About the Author

Recognized author, Peter Wolf is one of the coordinators of famous "the blue book" (Epileptic Syndromes in Infancy, fhildhood and Adolescence).

From the Back Cover

Reflex epilepsies can provide qualitative and quantitative insights into the complexities of ictogenesis. This is what the chapters of this book are about, dealing with such varied modes of precipitation as hot water, eating, touch and movement, music, and emotions. The relation of several reflex epileptic mechanisms to Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy is discussed as well as the meaning of their occurrence across syndromes for our present nosological understanding of epilepsy. Our traditional dichotomy seems out-dated as functional studies of trigger mechanisms rather point to central nervous subsystems acting as pathological networks generating seizures in both generalised and localisation-related epilepsies. This book makes the point on research for a better comprehension of the current nosology of the epilepsy. A reference work written by the best international specialists in epilepsy.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Libbey Eurotext (FR)
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2742005404
• ISBN 13: 9782742005406
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 156
• Editor: P Wolf, Y Inoue, B Zifkin