Aicardi’s Epilepsy in Children

Every physician who treats children with epilepsy will welcome this new Third Edition of Dr. Aicardi’s internationally acclaimed text. Dr. Aicardi and two distinguished colleagues,Alexis Arzimanoglou, MD and Renzo Guerrini, MD, have completely revised every chapter of this edition to reflect the past ten years’ advances in diagnosis and therapy. The book describes in detail the types of seizures occurring during infancy, childhood, and adolescence and explains the key principles of diagnosis, prognosis, and medical and surgical treatment, and there is also up to the minute information on anticonvulsant drugs, the genetics of epilepsy and a new chapter on epileptic encephalopathies