Editor's introduction - paediatric epilepsy and epilepsy surgery, G.W. Mathern; infantile spasms - the development of nonverbal communication after epilepsy surgery, R. Caplan et al; age and aetiology as predictors of language outcome following hemispherectomy, S. Curtiss and S. de Bode; cognitive development in benign focal epilepsies of childhood, M.-N. Metz-Lutz et al; functional MRI in children with epilepsy, S.Y. Bookheimer et al; hippocampal T2 abnormalities correlate with antecedent events and help predict seizure intractability, G.D. Jackson et al; hippocampal sclerosis - development in adult life, G.D. Jackson et al; developmental changes in NMDA-induced intrinsic optical signals in the hippocampal dentate gyrus of children with medically intractable seizures, M. Isokawa et al; electrophysiological and morphological analyses of cortical neurons obtained from children with catastrophic epilepsy -dopamine receptor modulation of glutamatergic responses, C. Cepeda et al; hippocampal chemical anatomy in paediatric and adolescent patients with hippocampal or extrahippocampal epilepsy, Z. Ying et al; cortical dysplasia, genetic abnormalities and neurocutaneous syndromes, H.V. Vinters et al; cerbral cortical dysplasia - giant neurons show potential for increased excitation and axonal plasticity, C. Kerfoot et al; focal cortical dysplasia in children, A. Hilbig et al; infantile spasms - hypothesis-driven therapy and pilot human infant experiments using corticotropic-releasing hormone receptor antagonists, T.Z. Baram et al; regional age-dependent effects of hemineodecortication upon contralateral neocritical thickness - comparison with other measures of cortical size, T.D. Schmanke et al; cellular morphology and physiology of the perinatal rat cerebral cortex, H.J. Luhmann et al; dual role of GABA in the neonatal rat hippocampus, I. Khalilov et al; developmental seizure susceptibility of Kv1.1 potassium channel knockout mice, J.M. Rho et al; chronic epilepsy in developing hippocampal neurons - electrophysiologic and morphologic features, C.E. Niesen and S. Ge; prevalence of epileptic seizures along the wakefulness-sleep cycle in adult rats submitted to status epilepticus in early life, B.L.C. Ferreira et al; ontogeny of self-sustaining status epilepticus, R. Sankar et al; development of a model of status epilepticus in pigtailed Macaque infant monkeys, V.M. Gunderson et al; synaptic responses of neurons in heterotopic grey matter in an animal model of cortical dysgenesis, B.N. Smith et al; electrophysioloigical responses in vivo of hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons in an animal model of neuronal migration disorders, B.N. Smith et al; abnormal connections in the malformed cortex of rats with prenatal treatment with methylazoxymethanol may support hyperexcitability, N. Chevassus-au-Louis et al; electrophysiological observations in hippocampal slices from rats treated with the ketogenic diet, C.E. Stafstrom et al; path analysis shows that increasing
