Generalized seizures : from clinical phenomenology to underlying systems and networks / Edouard Hirsch [and five others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hirsch, Edouard.

Workshop on, Corporate Author.

Series:

Progress in epileptic disorders ; v. 2.

Progress in epileptic disorders, 1777-4284 ; volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Epilepsy--Research.

Epilepsy.

Convulsions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montrouge : John Libbey Eurotext, [2006]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A 'generalised seizure' corresponds to an ictal manifestation whose initial semeiology indicates or is consistent with more than minimal involvement of both cerebral hemispheres. A 'network' is a functionally and automatically connected set of cortical and subcortical brain regions in which activity in any one part affects activity in all others.

Contents:

""Generalized Seizures: From clinical phenomenology to underlying systems and networks""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Workshop""; ""Section I: Generalized seizures and epilepsies: a bilateral “focal� dysfunction?""; ""What is a generalized seizure?""; ""What is Generalized Epilepsy?""; ""Section II : Tonic seizures and brainstem systems""; ""From brainstem to forebrain in generalized animal models of seizures and epilepsies""; ""Systems and network in tonic seizures and epilepsies in humans""; ""Comments from participants""; ""Comments from participants""

""Section III: Absence seizures and cortico-thalamic systems""""Propagation and dynamic processing of cortical paroxysms in the basal ganglia networks during absence seizures""; ""Cortical control of absence seizures: focal initiation, spreading and modulation""; ""Systems and networks in absence seizures and epilepsies in humans""; ""Spike-wave seizures in corticothalamic systems""; ""Section IV: Myoclonic seizures and the frontal lobe""; ""Animal models of myoclonic seizures and epilepsies""; ""Systems and networks in myoclonic seizures and epilepsies""

""Connections between primary reading epilepsy and Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy""""Section V: Primary versus Secondary Tonic-clonic seizures""; ""Behavior, neural circuits and plasticity in acute and chronic models of generalized tonic-clonic seizures""; ""The semiology and pathophysiology of the secondary generalized tonic-clonic seizures""; ""Tonic-clonic and clonic-tonic-clonic seizures in human primary generalized epilepsies""; ""Section VI: The “cortical� and “centrencephalic� theories revisited""; ""Cortical trigger in generalized seizures""

""Section VII: Phenomenology versus networks: clinical consequences""""Why can some antiepileptic drugs control certain types of seizures and aggravate others?""; ""Section VIII: Concluding remarks""; ""Can we replace the terms “focal� and “generalized�?""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 17, 2014).

ISBN:

9782742008797

2742008799

OCLC:

874163677