Epilepsy, Part I: Basic Principles and Diagnosis

SECTION 1 BASIC MECHANISMS1. Molecular Basis of Acquired Epileptogenesis - K. Lukasiuk and A. Pitkänen 2. Cellular bases of focal and generalised epilepsies - P.A. Schwartzkroin 3. Epilepsy as a dynamic disease of neuronal networks - F.H. Lopes Da Silva, J.A. Gorter and W.J. Wadman 4. Animal models - A. Coppola and S.L. Moshé 5. Classification of epilepsies and seizures: historical perspective and future directions - A.T. Berg and H. Cross 6. The epidemiology of the epilepsies - A. Neligan, W.A. Hauser and J.W. Sander 7. Maturation of the human brain and epilepsy - G.L. Holmes, M.D.M. Milh and O. Dulac 8. Genetics of idiopathic epilepsies - O.K. Steinlein 9. The genetics of focal epilepsies - J.J. Poza 10. Inflammation and epilepsy - A. Vezzani, S. Balosso and T. Ravizza SECTION 2 DIAGNOSIS11. Age related epileptic encephalopathies - R. Guerrini and J.M. Pellock 12. Epileptic syndromes with focal seizures of childhood and adolescence - T. Loddenkemper, E. Wyllie and E. Hirsch 13. Idiopathic generalised epilepsies - A. Kao and P.M. Rao 14. Temporal lobe epilepsy - M. Thom and E.H. Bertram 15. Extratemporal epilepsies - S. Bauer and H.M. Hamer 16. Reflex epilepsies - P. Wolf and M. Koepp 17. Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures - P. Widdess-Walsh, B. Mostacci, P. Tinuper and O. Devinsky 18. Syncope - B.A. Engelsen 19. Sleep and epilepsy - P. Halász 20. Electroencephalography and video-electroencephalography - A. Gil-Nagel and B. Abou-Khalil 21. Magnetoencephalography - H. Stefan, N. Nakasato and A.C. Papanicolaou 22. Structural brain imaging - R. Kälviäinen and Arnd Dörfler 23. Functional MR imaging: focus localisation - G.D. Jackson, R. Badawy and J. Gotman 24. Functional MR: functional mapping - W.D. Gaillard and M.M. Berl 25. Magnetic resonance spectroscopy in epilepsy - T. Hammen and R. Kuzniecky 26. Epilepsy diagnosis: PET - H.T. Chugani, F. Semah, A. Kumar and W.H. Theodore 27. Per-ictal single photon emission computed tomography: principles and applications in epilepsy evaluation - E.L. So and T.J. O'Brien 28. Clinical neuropsychology in epilepsy: theoretical and practical issues - C. Helmstaedter and J-A. Witt 29. Neuropsychiatric complications of epilepsy - D.C. Hesdorffer and A.M. Kanner