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Brain, Vol. 122, No. 8, 1603-1604, August 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press

Book Reviews

THE EPILEPSIES: ETIOLOGY AND PREVENTION.

Edited by Prakash Kotagal and Hans O. Lüders.1998. Pp. 587. San Diego: Academic Press.Price $159.95. ISBN 0-12-422150-5..

P. E. M. Smith

University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, UK

The one-time Cinderella speciality is now at the ball. The dull world of two seizures (petit mal, grand mal), two drugs (phenytoin, phenobarbitone) and too bad is history. Extraordinary advances in imaging, telemetry, anticonvulsants and the curative hope of surgery have put paid to much shoulder shrugging and placed epilepsy in its deserved spotlight. On to this stage is welcomed another epilepsy text.

Prakash Kotagal and Hans Lüders have brought together the proceedings of the 7th International Cleveland Clinic–Bethel Symposium (1996) on the aetiology and prevention of epilepsy. They deserve congratulation for co-ordinating an ambitious project, overseeing 150 international contributors to 64 chapters. The scope is broad with the book's strength lying in its clear description of the main structural aetiologies of epilepsy, especially cortical dysplasia, mesial temporal sclerosis, tumours, trauma, vascular disease and infection. There is a fairly rounded feel to most subjects presented though it sometimes lacks the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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