Surgical Treatment of Epilepsy

1. Concensus Proceedings: Introduction (W.H. Theodore). 2. Present Status in the Treatment of the Epilepsies (F.E. Dreifuss). 3. Intractable Epilepsy in Adults (I.E. Leppik). 4. Natural History of Drug Resistant Seizures: Clinical Aspects (L. Moretti Ojemann, C.B. Dodrill). 5. Uncontrolled Epilepsy in Children (W.T. Blume). 6. The Natural History of Drug Resistant Epilepsy: Epidemiologic Considerations (W. Allen Hauser). 7. Drug Treatment of Uncontrolled Seizures (R.H. Mattson). 8. Clinical and CCTV-EEG Evaluation in Presurgical Workup of Temporal and Frontal Lobe Epilepsies (A.V. Delgado-Escuta et al.). 9. Pre-surgical EEG Investigation in Frontal Lobe Epilepsy (L.F. Quesney et al.). 10. Use of Psychological and Neuropsychological Variables in Selection of Patients for Epilepsy Surgery (C.B. Dodrill, R.J. Wilkus, L. Moretti Ojeman). 11. Role of the Neuropsychological Evaluation and the Intracarotid Sodium Amobarbital Procedure in the Surgical Treatment for Epilepsy (R. Rausch). 12. Neuropsychological Techniques in the Identification of Epileptic Foci (M. Jones-Gotman). 13. Identification of the Epileptic Focus: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (G.D. Cascino, J.R. Clifford Jr., K.A. Hirschorn, F.W. Sharbrough). 14. Intractable Complex Partial Seizure: Correlation of Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Pathology and Electroencephalography (C.F. Dowd, W.P. Dillon, N.M. Barbaro, K.D. Laxer). 15. PET in Relation to Intracranial Electrode Evaluation (J. Engel Jr., et al.). 16. Single Photon Imaging Computed Tomography (SPECT) for Localization of Epileptogenic Focus in Patients with Intractable Complex Partial Seizures (O.N. Markland et al.). 17. MRI, PET, SPECT: Interrelations; Technical Limits; Unanswered Questions (W.H. Theodore). 18. Depth Electrodes (S.S. Spencer). 19. Subdural Electrodes in the Presurgical Evaluation for Surgery of Epilepsy (H. Luders et al.). 20. Strategies for Focal Resection in Medically Intractable Epilepsy (D.D. Spencer). 21. Different Approaches to Resective Epilepsy Surgery: "Standard" and "Tailored" (G.A. Ojemann). 22. Temporal Resections in the Surgical Treatment of Epilepsy (A. Olivier). 23. Clinical Indications for Hemispherectomy and Callosotomy (F. Andermann). 24. EEG Selection for Corpus Callosotomy (J.R. Gates). 25. Corpus Callostomy (A.R. Wyler). 26. Anatomical to Functional Hemispherectomy: from Krynauw to Rasmussen (J.-G. Villemure). 27. Assessment of Surgical Outcome (R.P. Lesser, R.S. Fisher, S. Uematsu). 28. Methodological Issues in Outcome Assessment (J.F. Annegers). 29. Standards for Epilepsy Surgery Centers (R.J. Gumnit). 30. Consensus Development Conference Statement: Surgery for Epilepsy (Consensus Panel). Indexes.