Introduction; 1. A clinician's look at the developmental neurobiology of epilepsy; 2. Partial (focal) seizures in developing brain; 3. Absence seizures in developing brain; 4. Developmental neuropathology and childhood epilepsies; 5. Neuronal identity, neuronal migration and epileptic disorders of the cerebral cortex; 6. Regulation of excitability in developing neurons; 7. Candidate genes in the childhood epilepsies: Molecular biology of channels and receptors; 8. Synaptogenesis and epileptogenesis in developing neural networks; 9. Plasticity and repair in the immature central nervous system; 10. Seizure-induced changes in the immature brain; 11. Age-specific antiepileptic drug treatment and development of new age-specific, antiepileptic drugs; Epilogue
