Women with epilepsy : a handbook of health and treatment issues / edited by Martha J. Morrell and Kerry L. Flynn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morrell, Martha J.

Flynn, Kerry L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Epilepsy--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Epilepsy.

Women--Diseases--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Women.

Epilepsy--therapy.

Women's Health.

Women--Diseases.

Medical Subjects:

Epilepsy--therapy.

Women's Health.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

xi, 297 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Summary:

In this handbook for women, their clinicians, families, and friends, Martha Morrell assembles a team of experts to review the special problems faced by women with epilepsy. In many ways, epilepsy is a different disease in women and in men. Epilepsy treatments affect fertility, and can cause pregnancy complications and birth defects, but most of the available drugs have been tested on men. Moreover, hormone effects on seizures are of particular concern to women at puberty, at menopause, and over the menstrual cycle. Many health-care providers are not informed about the unique issues facing women with epilepsy. This book, published in association with the Epilepsy Foundation, fills that gap and provides women with epilepsy with the information they need to be effective self-advocates.

Contents:

Part I The woman with epilepsy

2 On being a woman with epilepsy / Lisa Zobian Lindahl 7

3 The woman with epilepsy: a historical perspective / Orrin Devinsky 17

4 Quality of life issues for women with epilepsy / Joyce A. Cramer 35

Part II Epilepsy diagnosis and treatment

5 The genetics of epilepsy / Melodie R. Winawer, Ruth Ottman 47

6 Epilepsy: epidemiology, definitions, and diagnostic procedures / Simon Shorvon, Dominic Heaney 57

7 Antiepileptic drugs and other treatments for epilepsy / Jacqueline A. French 68

8 Epilepsy in children and adolescents / Patricia Crumrine 77

9 Nonepileptic seizures / Steven C. Schachter 89

Part III Hormones and the brain

10 Brain differences / Paula Shear, Rosemary Fama 101

11 Sex hormones and how they act in the brain: a primer on the molecular mechanisms of action of sex steroid hormones / Philip A. Schwartzkroin 112

12 Epilepsy and the menstrual cycle / Patricia O. Shafer, Andrew G. Herzog 119

13 Menopause and epilepsy / Fariha Abbasi, Allan Krumholz 131

Part IV Health challenges for women with epilepsy

14 Reproductive health for women with epilepsy / Martha J. Morrell 145

15 Sexual dysfunction in epilepsy / Martha J. Morrell 152

16 Bone health in women with epilepsy / Robert Marcus 164

17 Psychiatric complications in epilepsy / Laura Marsh 171

Part V Family planning, pregnancy, and parenting

18 Family planning and contraceptive choice / Pamela M. Crawford 197

19 Pregnancy risks for the woman with epilepsy / Mark Yerby, Yasser Y. El-Sayed 203

20 Risks of birth defects in children born to mothers with epilepsy / Aline T. Derdiarian, Yasser Y. El-Sayed 215

21 Neurocognitive outcome in children of mothers with epilepsy / Kimford J. Meador 222

22 Parenting for women with epilepsy / Mimi Callanan 228

Part VI Living well with epilepsy

23 The impact of epilepsy on relationships / Patricia A. Gibson 237

24 Parenting the daughter with epilepsy / Joan Kessner Austin, Janet Austin Tooze 249

25 Safety issues for women with epilepsy / Patricia Dean 263

26 Legal issues facing women with epilepsy / Jeanne Carpenter 269

27 Work issues and epilepsy / Jim Troxell 281

Appendix The Epilepsy Foundation's Campaign for Women's Health: bringing help and hope to women with epilepsy / Elizabeth A. Borda 287.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0521652243

0521655412

OCLC:

48177206

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