Neuropsychology of Epilepsy and Epilepsy Surgery [Paperback]

This book provides essential information about the variety of seizure disorders and serves as a basic epilepsy reference guide for students and practicing clinical neuropsychologists. In addition to epilepsy neuropsychological assessment issues, the book provides an overview of the known cognitive effects of seizures as well as the adaptive, emotional, and psychiatric consequences of epilepsy including a chapter on psychogenic nonepileptic seizures. Diagnostic tests, such as EEG and structural neuroimaging, are described and the leading treatment options are detailed with a chapter on pharmacologic therapies which reviews the known cognitive and behaivoral side effects of specific antiepileptic drugs. Many of the more rare epilepsy disorders have been included in the appendices for quick and easy reference.

The book also details the role of neuropsychology within the epilepsy surgery process including pre-and post-surgery cognitive evaluations, cortical stimulation mapping, functional neuroimaging, and intracarotid amobarbital (Wada) procedures and reviews the major surgical treatment options used in the intractable epilepsies. Case examples are dispersed throughout the text with neuropsychological results as heuristic aids. The book concludes with a glossary of epilepsy terms.


PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PART ONE

MEDICAL ASPECTS OF EPILEPSY FOR NEUROPSYCHOLOGISTS

Chapter 1
Introduction

Definitions

Epidemiology

Etiology

Role of Neuropsychologist in Epilepsy

Role of Neuropsychologist in Epilepsy Surgery

Chapter 2
Classification of Epilepsy Disorders

Tradition Classification of Seizure Disorders

Partial Seizure Disorders

Simple Partial Seizures

Complex Partial Seizures

Generalized Seizure Disorders

Absence Seizures

Tonic-Clonic Seizures

Epidemiology of Seizure Disorders

Etiology of Seizure Disorders

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