Epilepsy and the ketogenic diet / edited by Carl E. Stafstrom, Jong M. Rho ; foreword by Philip A. Schwartzkroin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stafstrom, Carl Ernest.

Rho, Jong M.

Series:

Nutrition and health (Totowa, N.J.)

Nutrition and health

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Epilepsy--Diet therapy.

Epilepsy.

Ketogenic diet.

Epilepsy--diet therapy.

Dietary Fats--therapeutic use.

Ketone Bodies--biosynthesis.

Models, Animal.

Diet therapy.

Medical Subjects:

Epilepsy--diet therapy.

Dietary Fats--therapeutic use.

Ketone Bodies--biosynthesis.

Models, Animal.

Physical Description:

xx, 352 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [2004]

Contents:

An introduction to seizures and epilepsy: cellular mechanisms underlying classification and treatment / Carl E. Stafstrom

History and origin of the ketogenic diet / James W. Wheless

The ketogenic diet: the physician's perspective / Eric H. Kossoff and John M. Freeman

Clinical use of the ketogenic diet: the dietitian's [sic] role / Beth Zupec-Kania, Rhonda Roel Werner, and Mary L. Zupanc

How to maintain and support a ketogenic diet program: a nursing perspective / Jeri E. Nichols-Sutherling and Danine Mele-Hayes

Efficacy of the ketogenic diet / James E. Rubenstein and Eileen P.G. Vining

The ketogenic diet in adults / Michael R. Sperling and Maromi Nei

Indications and contraindications of the ketogenic diet / Anna Gunhild Christina Bergqvist

Complications of the ketogenic diet / Karen R. Ballaban-Gil

Measuring and interpreting ketosis and fatty acid profiles in patients on a high-fat ketogenic diet / Kathy Musa-Veloso and Stephen C. Cunnane

Insights from neuroimaging studies into ketosis and the ketogenic diet / Jullie W. Pan

Potential applications of the ketogenic diet in disorders other than epilepsy / Rif S. El-Mallakh

Dietary treatments for epilepsy other than the ketogenic diet / Carl E. Stafstrom and Gregory L. Holmes

Effects of the ketogenic diet on cerebral energy metabolism / Douglas R. Nordli Jr. and Darryl C. De Vivo

The ketogenic diet: interactions with brain amino acid handling

/ Marc Yudkoff ... [et al.]

Molecular regulation of ketogenesis / Tim E. Cullingford

The effects of ketone bodies on neuronal excitability / Sergei S. Likhodii and W. McIntyre Burnham

Effects of the ketogenic diet on acute seizure models / Douglas A. Eagles and Kristopher J. Bough

Caloric restriction and epilepsy: historical perspectives, relationship to the ketogenic diet, and analysis in epileptic EL mice / Thomas N. Seyfried, Amanda E. Greene, and Mariana T. Todorova

The role of norepinephrine in the anticonvulsant mechanism of action of the ketogenic diet / Patricia Szot

Galanin and neuropeptide Y: orexigenic neuropeptides link food intake, energy homeostasis, and seizure susceptibility / David Weinshenker

The neuroprotective and antiepileptogenic effects of the ketogenic diet / Jong M. Rho

Afterword: a parent's perspective on childhood epilepsy: the things I wish they had told us / Jim Abrahams.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1588292959

OCLC:

54966707