Epilepsy Case Studies

Zusammenfassung Features more than one hundred case vignettes that explore epilepsy. This work contain cases that challenge long-held views about epilepsy and others bring the reader to the limits of our understanding of epilepsy! both in clinical and basic science.

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Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders, and original observations in the field are often the key to diagnosis and successful treatment. Physicians new to the field as well as seasoned practitioners will benefit from more than one hundred case vignettes that explore the universe of epilepsy as it presents in daily practice. Some of these cases challenge long-held views about epilepsy and others bring the reader to the limits of our understanding of epilepsy, both in clinical and basic science. To improve the interface of clinical and basic science in epilepsy, basic scientists comment on the potential mechanisms underlying clinical observations, and clinicians assess the potential impact of recent results of experiments in the laboratory. This book highlights the importance that original observations have in inspiring both new treatments and continued research.

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Preface to the second edition

List of Contributors

Part I Diagnostic Puzzles and Uncertainties

1. A Young Woman with Mouth Jerking Provoked by Reading

2. Two Adult Patients with Infantile Spasms

3. An Infant with Partial Seizures and Infantile Spasms

4. Epilepsia Partialis Continua versus Non-Epileptic Seizures

5. Panic Attacks in a Woman with Frontal Lobe Epilepsy

6. Frequent Night Terrors

7. Genetic (Generalized) Epilepsy with Febrile Seizures Plus

8. A Visit to the Borderland of Neurology and Psychiatry

9. A Case of Complex Partial Status Epilepticus

10. Late-Onset Myoclonic Seizures in Down's Syndrome

11. Fainting, Fear, and Pallor in a 22-Month-Old Girl

Part II Intriguing Causes and Circumstances

12. Hyperactive Behavior and Attentional Deficit in a 7-Year-Old Boy with Myoclonic Jerks

13. Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, Loss of Episodic Memory, and Depression in a 32-Year-Old Woman

14. Epileptic " Dreamy States in a Young Man

15. Nocturnal Seizures in a Man with Coronary Disease

16. Non-convulsive Status Epilepticus and Frontal Lobe Seizures in a Patient with a Chromosome Abnormality

17. An Unusual Cause of Nocturnal Attacks

18. Myoclonic Jerks in a Computer Specialist

19. Their Previous Physicians had Told Them that They Should not Become Pregnant Because They have Epilepsy

20. Status Epilepticus after a Long Day of White-Water Rafting in the Grand Canyon

21. A Farmer Who Watched His Own Seizures

22. The Borderland of Neurology and Cardiology

23. A Man with Shoulder Twitching

24. The Girl with Visual Seizures Who wasn't Seeing Things - Transient Blindness in a Young Girl

25. A Young Man with Noise-Induced Partial Seizures

26. Non-convulsive Status Epilepticus in a Patient with Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsy

27. Pseudohypoglycemia Manifesting as Complex Partial Seizures in a Patient with Type III Glycogen Storage Disease

Part III Surprising Turns and Twists

28. Recurrent Amnestic Episodes in a 62-Year-Old Diabetic Patient

29. Attacks of Nausea and Palpitations in a Woman with Epilepsy

30. Absence Status Epilepticus in a 60-Year-Old Woman

31. Hemiplegia in a 76-Year-Old Woman with Status Epilepticus

32. Persistence Pays Off

33. Drugs Did Not Work in a Little Girl with Absence Seizures

34. " Alternative Therapy for Partial Epilepsy - with a Twist

35. A 19-Year-Old Man with Epilepsy, Aphasia, and Hemangioma of the Cranial Vault

36. Severe Psychiatric Disorder in an 8-Year-Old Boy with Myoclonic-Astatic Seizures

37. A Girl with Two Epilepsy Syndromes

38. The Obvious Cause of Seizures May Not Be the Underlying Cause

39. Absence Seizures in an Adult

40. A Case Solved by Seizures During Sleep

41. Alternative Psychosis in an Adolescent Girl?

42. Exacerbation of Seizures in a Young Woman

43. Genetic Counseling in a Woman with a Family History of Refractory Myoclonic Epilepsy

44. " Funny Jerks Run in the Family

45. Side Effects That Imitate Seizures

46. Epilepsy, Migraine, and Cerebral Calcifi cations

47. An Unusual Application of Epilepsy Surgery

48. All is Not What it Seems

49. A Patient Whose Epilepsy Diagnosis Changed Three Times Over 20 Years

50. If You Don't Succeed, Investigate

51. Should He or Shouldn't He? Is It Reasonable to Prescribe Carbamazepine after Lamotrigineinduced Stevens-Johnson Syndrome?

52. The Value of Repeating Vi