Epilepsy Syndromes

Section I: Introduction 1

1 Epilepsy Seizures and Syndromes: Clinical Cases and Video-EEGs . Mary Ann Werz 3

2 How To Use This Book . Mary Ann Werz 5

Section II: Generalized Idiopathic Seizures 11

3 Childhood Absence Epilepsy . Rabon Allen 13

4 Juvenile Absence Epilepsy . Jeffrey L. Sponsler 17

5 Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy . Mary Ann Werz 21

Section III: Generalized Symptomatic Epilepsy 25

6 Infantile Spasms/West Syndrome . Arie Weinstock and Michelle Hartley McAndrew 27

7 Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome . Jennifer R. Avery 33

8 Myoclonic Astatic Epilepsy . Chaiyos Khongkhatithum 43

Section IV: Undetermined Epilepsy Syndromes 47

9 Neonatal Seizures . Mark Scher 49

10 Landau-Kleffner Syndrome (Acquired Epileptic Aphasia) and Continuous Spike and Waves during Slow Wave Sleep Syndrome . Ignacio L. Pita 59

Section V: Idiopathic Localization-Related Epilepsies 65

11 Benign Focal Epilepsy of Childhood with Centrotemporal Spikes . Tobias Loddenkemper 67

Section VI: Localization-Related Epilepsies 71

12 Temporal Lobe Epilepsy . Mary Ann Werz 73

13 Frontal Lobe Epilepsy . Ignacio L. Pita 91

14 Parietal Lobe Epilepsy . Ignacio L. Pita 103

15 Occipital Lobe Epilepsy . Mary Ann Werz 109

16 Gelastic Seizures . Shahram Amina 117

Section VII: Presurgical Evaluation, Surgical Procedures, and Pathology 121

17 Evaluation for Epilepsy Surgery by the Epilepsy Team . Pamela A. Lang 123

18 MRI and Epilepsy . Barbara A. Bangert 127

19 Nuclear Imaging and Epilepsy . Peter F. Faulhaber 133

20 Neuropsychology in Epilepsy . Michael R. Schoenberg 141

21 Intracarotid Sodium Amobarbital Procedure (the Wada Test) . Michael R. Schoenberg 145

22 The Electrocorticogram . Mohamad Z. Koubeissi 147

23 Functional Mapping . Tanvir U. Syed 159

24 Surgical Treatment of Medically Intractable Epilepsy . Robert J. Maciunas 161

25 Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery . Shenandoah Robinson 167

26 Surgical Pathology of Epilepsy . Mark L. Cohen 171

Section VIII: Nonepileptic Events 175

27 Psychogenic Nonepileptic Events . Ignacio L. Pita 177

28 Benign Neonatal Sleep Myoclonus and Benign Myoclonus of Early Infancy . Asim Shahid 185

29 Self-Gratification Disorder in Children . Kathy Maxwell 187

30 Reflex Infantile Syncopes (Breath Holding Spells) . Monisha Goyal 189

31 Discriminating Between Panic Disorder and Epilepsy . Philipp L. Dines 193

32 Seizure versus Syncope . Adriana C. Bermeo, Richard C. Burgess, and Stephan U. Schuele 197

33 Sleep Behaviors versus Epilepsy . Mustafa Kahriman 203

Index 211