Frontal Lobe Seizures & Epilepsies in Children de F Andermann

Frontal Lobe Seizures & Epilepsies in Children

F Andermann

P Chauvel

L Mira

B Zifkin

A Beaumanoir

A comprehensive international review of basic and clinical research based on the Mariani Foundation Colloquium on frontal lobe epilepsy in childhood and adolescence held at the Milan State University in October 2000. Distinguished authors discuss advances in neurogenetics, neuropsychology and imaging. This book describes clinical, electroencephalographic and neuroimaging patterns of frontal lobe epilepsy in detail and reviews advances in medical and surgical treatment. It will be useful and stimulating reading for pediatric and adult epilepsy specialists, psychiatrists, neuropsychologists and other behavioural scientists, and research workers in epileptology.

Citește tot Restrânge

Cuprins

Functional anatomy of the prefrontal cortex; Cognitive development and the frontal lobe; Epileptogenesis in the frontal lobe; Cognitive evoked potentials in the study of frontal lobe executive functions and their maturation; The neuroethological interpretation of motor behaviours in 'nocturnal-hyperkynetic-frontal seizures': emergence of 'innate' motor behaviours and role of central pattern generators; Natural history of frontal lobe epilepsies; Can we classify frontal lobe seizures?; Dorsolateral frontal lobe seizures; Cingulate and mesial frontal seizures; Reflex frontal lobe epilepsies; Frontal lobe epilepsy in infancy; Ictal video-EEG features in children with nocturnal frontal seizures; Generalised epilepsies and frontal lobe epilepsies in children; Acquired epileptic frontal syndrome in children; Neuropsychology of frontal lobe epilepsy in children; Functional imaging of frontal lobe epilepsies; Magnetic resonance imaging in the diagnosis of frontal lobe epilepsy in children; Electroclinical semeiology of frontal lobe seizures in infants and children; Secondary bilateral synchrony; Medical treatment of frontal lobe seizures in children.