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Brain, Vol. 126, No. 11, 2567-2568, November 2003
© 2003 Guarantors of Brain
doi: 10.1093/brain/awg281

Book Review

A CLINICAL GUIDE TO EPILEPTIC SYNDROMES AND THEIR TREATMENT

Roger Cull

Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK

A CLINICAL GUIDE TO EPILEPTIC SYNDROMES AND THEIR TREATMENT
By C. P. Panayiotopoulos
2002. Chipping Norton: Bladon Medical Publishing
Price: £39.95. ISBN 1-904218-23-72.

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In 1981 the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) put forward a new classification of epilepsy and seizures that has been the mainstay for clinicians working in the field for more than 20 years. The classification was revised in 1989 and again more recently in 2001 by the ILAE Task Force. The new classification takes into account the emphasis that has emerged over the past decade on the concept of epilepsy syndromes. This clinically useful idea recognises that certain clinical and electrophysiological patterns in the presentation of epilepsy may have several different causes (e.g. West’s syndrome), . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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