Wyllie's treatment of epilepsy : principles and practice.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wyllie, Elaine.

Cascino, Gregory D.

Gidal, Barry E.

Goodkin, Howard P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Epilepsy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1125 p.)

Edition:

Fifth edition / editor-in-chief, Elaine Wyllie ; associate editors, Gregory D. Cascino, Barry E. Gidal, Howard P. Goodkin.

Other Title:

Treatment of epilepsy

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In one convenient source, this book provides a broad, detailed, and cohesive overview of seizure disorders and contemporary treatment options. For this Fifth Edition, the editors have replaced or significantly revised approximately 30 to 50 percent of the chapters, and have updated all of them. Dr. Wyllie has invited three new editors: Gregory Cascino, MD, at Mayo Clinic, adult epileptologist with special expertise in neuroimaging; Barry Gidal, PharmD, RPh, at University of Wisconsin, a pharmacologist with phenomenal expertise in antiepileptic medications; and Howard Goodkin, MD, PhD, a pediatric neurologist at the University of Virginia. A fully searchable companion website will include the full text online and supplementary material such as seizure videos, additional EEG tracings, and more color illustrations"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

part I. Pathologic substrates and mechanisms of epileptogenesis

part II. Basic principles of electroencephalography

part III. Epileptic seizures and syndromes

part IV. Antiepileptic medications

part V. Epilepsy surgery

part VI. Psychosocial aspects of epilepsy.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Rev. edition of: The treatment of epilepsy. 4th edition / editor-in-chief, Elaine Wyllie. c2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4511-5348-1

1-4511-2521-6

1-4698-7767-8

OCLC:

908511259