Epileptic Syndromes in Infancy, Childhood and Adolescence

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Wolf, Peter

Bureau, M

Roger, J

Dravet, Ch

Dreifuss, F E

Perret, A

Diseases & Physical Ailments

John Libbey Eurotext Ltd

<p>This report of the proceedings of the Colloquium on Occipital Seizures and Epilepsies in Children held in Milan in March 1992 covers topics such as: ontogenesis, structures and function of the occipital lobe; occipital epilepsy in children; and structures and functions of the occipital lobe.</p>

Occipital Seizures And Epilepsies in Children

Medical Books

Andermann, F.

Medicine

This book assembles the results of clinical experience and research, as well as the views of specialists who have studied in depth several rare and complex syndromes associated with continuous spikes and waves during slow sleep, the Landau-Kleffner syndrome, and related conditions, and a wide-ranging collection of cases analysing various clinical, electro- physiological and psychointellectual aspects. The book provides a thorough update on specialized knowledge about the syndromes characterized by the presence of CSWS on the EEG, to resolve many questions.

Continuous Spikes and Waves During Slow Sleep

Beaumanoir, A.

Tassinari, C.A.

Mira, L

Deonna, T.

Coeliac disease may be manifested with gastrointestinal symptoms, or be latent. It may also be present with dermatitis herpetiformis, dental enamel defects or neurological disorders - especially epilepsy. In the case of the latter symptoms, these appear mostly in relation to occipital seizures, frequently intractable. This book examines these and other neurological manifestations.

Epilepsy and Other Neurological Disorders In Coeliac Disease

Gobbi

Naccarato, S

Gobbi, Giuseppe

Banchini, G

This comprehensive colour atlas provides a state-of-the-art view of Single Photon Emission Computerized Tomography (SPECT) in relation to its application in the fields of nuclear medicine and psychiatry. The broad range of topics covered by experts in the fields of nuclear medicine, neurology and psychiatry from all over the world, reflects the most recent evolution in functional neuroimaging with clinical neuropsychiatric sciences.

A Textbook of SPECT in Neurology and Psychiatry

Dierckx, RA

Alavi, A

Pickut, BA

De Deyn, Peter P

A new phase of anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) investigation has begun in which new drugs can be designed to target specific epileptogenic mechanisms. A rational approach to therapy today requires not only a full awareness of phamacokinetics of AEDs but also a thorough knowledge of their molecular targets and of their influence on excitatory and inhibitory mechanisms in the brain.

Molecular and Cellular Targets for Anti-Epileptic Drugs

Avanzini, G.

Avanzini

Regesta, G

Tanganelli, P

Avoli, M

The study of neuropsychological functions in children has lately undergone a considerable evolution, most obviously represented by the evidence that cerebral areas of the child's brain are specialized at a very early stage. Such evidence has been derived from a number of anatomical, physiological and clinical studies.

Localization of Brain Lesions and Developmental Functions

Benton, Arthur

Riva, Daria

This book contains a collection of the currently newest, and probably most important facts on the pathogenesis of Barrett's Esophagus and the clinical consequences implicit in its complications.  It was written with reference to the 6th OESO World Congress in Paris and is simultaneously the documentation of this meeting of esophagologeal experts from all over the world. The books are comprised of over 1,000 pages of in-depth exploration of a chosen theme of esophagology by the original process of its methodical dissection into a long series of questions relevant to very varied specialties, illustrating the specific, multi-disciplinary nature of OESO.

Barrett's Esophagus: Columnar Lined Esophagus

Giuli, Robert

Increase in survival for very low birth weight infants has been observed, due to various improvements in perinatal care. However neurodevelopmental outcome remains a major issue. The effect of early environmental factors (during the hospital stay) and routine NICU practices on neurobehavioral development is discussed. Developmental care is an association of environmental and behavioral strategies designed to decrease the stress of preterm neonates. These interventions can be used alone or in association into more complex programs as the Neonatal Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program (NIDCAP). Despite growing scientific literature, the medical impact of developmental care is still controversial. Major differences in medical and nursing practices are observed. This book reviews the theoretical framework underlying developmental care and the research-based data in different fields: neuroscience, developmental psychology, medicine and nursing. Reflections on the impact on staff are included. Recommendations for new research programs on this important aspect of neonatal care are proposed.

Research on Early Developmental Care in Preterm Neonates

Jacques Sizun

Joy V. Browne

<p>This book of biology and medicine shows how diseases: Sickle cell anaemia, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, is related to the adaptation of our organism to aerial respiration. This adaptation is operated by a genetic switch substituting a set of foetal proteins, for more adequate, regulated, adult isoforms. We discover how foetal or adult metabolic pathways, may control the switch, and propose pharmacological treatments to boost the expression of the foetal gene, acting as a spare wheel to replace the adult gene when it is mutated. In fact this switch recapitulates a process reminding of the evolution of amphibians that left their pond to live in air and land. The foetus is also an aquatic creature that discovers at birth aerial respiration and the new weight of his body. His blood and muscle proteins will adapt. The metamorphosis is not as evident as for a tadpole, but still as deeply written in our genes. In fact, the switch is our second metamorphosis, the story started much earlier, when a host cell, already surviving oxygen, incorporated a bacterium, our future mitochondria, that had a more efficient oxidative metabolism. A symbiotic arrangement followed. In the course of development, the most ancient pathways come on stage first, followed by the most recent mitochondrial acquisitions. The developmental maturation of metabolic pathways changes our cells, it is our first metamorphosis. It is involved in apoptosis in diseases such as Alzheimer s or Cancer. Since mitochondria took the burden of making ATP, the ancient oxidative mechanism became redundant. Its ATPase evolved forming acidic compartments that control neurotransmission or thermoregulation. This third metamorphosis is implicated in other diseases (adrenoleucodystrophy). Finally primates, who lost uricase, developed diseases related to the role of uric acid which became their new antioxidant: Gout, Autism or Schizophrenia seem to depend on this last, forth metamorphosis.</p>

Four Hidden Metamorphoses: a Remark on Blood, Muscle, Mental Diseases and Cancer

Maurice Israel

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