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Brain, Vol. 126, No. 9, 2109-2110, September 2003
© 2003 Guarantors of Brain
doi: 10.1093/brain/awg211

Book Review

A CLINICAL GUIDE TO EPILEPTIC SYNDROMES AND THEIR TREATMENT

Samuel F. Berkovik

Epilepsy Research Institute, Neuroscience Building, Austin & Repatriation Medical Centre, Victoria, Australia

A CLINICAL GUIDE TO EPILEPTIC SYNDROMES AND THEIR TREATMENT
By C. P. Panayiotopoulos
2002. Bladon Medical Publishing: Oxford
Price £39.95. pp. 278. ISBN 1-904218-23-7.

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The recognition of epilepsy syndromes and attempts at their classification has led to a burgeoning literature in this area. This body of research represents one of the most important advances in epileptology over the last 20 years. The addition of neuroradiological insights and, more recently, genetic discoveries have both enhanced our ability to diagnose and classify epilepsy syndromes and to understand their neurobiology.

Regarding the idiopathic epilepsies, where there is no known underlying brain lesion, neuroimaging, by definition, is negative (but it is helpful to rule out other disorders) and genetic studies are only beginning to unravel the complexities . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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