Epilepsy board quick review : selected tables and figures from Seizures and epilepsy / Jerome Engel, Jr, MD, PhD, Jonathan Sinay Distinguished Professor of Neurology, Neurobiology, and Psychiarty and Biobehavior Sciences, Direcor, UCLA Seizure Disorder Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
Terminology and classifications -- Mechanisms of neuronal excitation and synchronization -- Basic mechanisms of seizure and epilepsy -- Causes of human epilepsy -- Epileptic seizures -- Epilepsy syndromes -- Epileptogenesis -- Periictal phenomena -- Status epilepticus -- Chronic behavioral disturbances -- Diagnostic evaluation -- Differential diagnosis -- General principles of treatment -- Antiseizure drugs -- Nonpharmacologic therapy of seizure -- Social management.
Summary
Engel's ""Epilepsy Board Quick Review: Selected Tables and Figures from Seizures and Epilepsy"" will utilize 86 tables and 47 black and white figures from the ""parent book"" to provide a quick guide for anyone preparing for the boards. In addition to serving as a board-review guide, this will also be a handy pocket guide for any physician interested in a quick reference to drug tables, signs and symptoms, and other unusual facets of child or adult presenting with seizures. Seizures and Epilepsy, Second Edition has quickly reasserted itself as a modern classic and comprehensive textbook coveri
