Covers all aspects of epilepsy, from basic mechanisms to diagnosis and management, as well as legal and social considerations.

Epilepsy has a fascinating history. To the medical historian Oswei Temkin it was 'the paradigm of the suffering of both body and soul in disease'. It is justifi

Expanded and revised, this unique book provides concise descriptions of the many causes of epilepsy, for use in clinical practice.

As a truly translational area of biomedical investigation, epilepsy research spans an extraordinary breadth of subjects and involves virtually every tool that m

Conventional wisdom assumes that sleep is a resting state of the brain, with negligible activity of cortical neurons. Here, the author brings new evidence favor