"Epileptology: The Modern State of Science" ed. by Vladimir V. Kalinin

This book written by different authors from all over the world on different topics, including phenomenology, pathogenesis, and treatment in epilepsy. The modern data on these topics may be helpful for many specialists in the domain of epileptology.

Epilepsy seems to represent one of the most frequent neurological diseases and occurs in about 1% of the general population. Although epilepsy is known since antiquity, the precise data on its pathogenesis and effective treatment are still collected and nowadays represents an interest for neurologists and psychiatrists. Being a neurological disease, epilepsy is characterized by a broad palette of comorbid psychiatric disorders (affective and anxiety disorders, psychoses) that reduce the quality of life. Moreover, the risk of suicidal attempts in persons with epilepsy is much higher than in general population that once again increases the actuality of epilepsy research in many aspects.


Contents
Preface
1 EEG Long-Term Dynamics to Measure Progress of Concurrent Patients in Drug-Resistant Childhood Syndromes
2 Benign Childhood Epilepsy Syndromes
3 GABAergic Interneurons in Severe Early Epileptic Encephalopathy with a Suppression-Burst Pattern: A Continuum of Pathology
4 Epilepsy as a Pyridoxine-Dependent Condition: Quantitative Urinary Biomarkers of Epilepsy. Family Disorders of Pyridoxine Metabolism
5 Epidemiology and Risk Factors for Suicide Among Adult Patients with Epilepsy
6 Focus Laterality and Interface Between Depression and Anxiety in Patients with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
7 Psychiatric Comorbidities and Quality of Life in Epilepsy
8 Antiepileptic Drug Targets: An Update on Ion Channels
9 Antiepileptic Drugs and Risk Factors of Vascular Diseases
10 Epidemiological Study of Acute Poisoning for Antiepileptic Drugs: A 2-Year Retrospective Study in Cracow, Poland
11 Acute Valproic Acid Intoxication: An Attempt at Estimating the Correlation Between Serum Level and Clinical Manifestations
12 Therapeutic Monitoring of Anticonvulsants: Use of Saliva as Biological Fluid
13 Role of ABC-Transporters in Epileptogenesis and Pharmacoresistant Epilepsy