The Treatment of Epilepsy

• The text is compiled by a group of internationally renowned editors and contributors and is now in full color and extensively illustrated
• The first two sections cover the background to, and principles of, treatment in different clinical situations
• Section three comprises a series of systematic reviews of contemporary drug therapy, devoting one chapter to each anti-epileptic drug and covering all clinically-relevant aspects
• Section four focuses on the surgical options, devoting individual chapters to each of the modalities of presurgical assessment and to each surgical operation or approach
• This 4th edition is extensively revised incorporating the many recent developments in therapy, and comprises 81 chapters from world experts from 18 countries

Simon Shorvon MA MB BChir MD FRCP

Professor in Clinical Neurology and Clinical SubDean

UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London

and Consultant Neurologist

National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

Queen Square

London, UK

Emilio Perucca MD PhD FRCP(Edin)

Professor of Medical Pharmacology

Clinical Pharmacology Unit

Department of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics

University of Pavia

Pavia, Italy

and Director, Clinical Trial Center

C Mondino National Neurological Institute

Pavia, Italy

Jerome Engel Jr MD PhD

Director,

Seizure Disorder Center

Jonathan Sinay Distinguished Professor, Neurology, Neurobiology, Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Los Angeles, California, USA