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Synopsis
Children with epilepsy often have language and behavior complications. This book looks at why the problems arise and assesses treatments.
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Reviewer:Michael Duchowny, M.D.(Miami Children's Hospital)
Description:This is a broad overview of developmental problems associated with epilepsy in childhood. It covers a broad range of problems including disorders of speech, language, learning and behavior.
Purpose:The book is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of problems associated with epilepsy. It integrates information about seizure disorders with their comorbid conditions and emphasizes neuropsychological aspects of seizures and their treatment. This focus is especially noteworthy as most other textbooks of epilepsy give preferential treatment to the medical and pharmacological aspects of epilepsy.
Audience:By virtue of the material, and the way it is presented, this book should have widespread appeal to primary care pediatricians and a broad range of specialists. Developmental pediatricians, speech therapists, child psychiatrists and child psychologists will find this book particularly valuable.
Features:The book is subdivided into three sections on speech and language, learning problems, and behavior problems. Chapters cover a wide range of topics that include developmental and psychiatric disorders and nonepileptic events. Epilepsy syndromes such as the Landau Kleffner syndrome and bilateral congenital perisylvian syndrome that are linked specifically to associated disorders are described. The reference lists following each chapter are comprehensive and a glossary of neurological and epilepsy related terms is provided. No tables or figures are provided; this is a shortcoming as graphics and charts would help the reader to organize the material and illustrate information in the book.
Assessment:This is a unique book, as no similar compilation of information is available. It is up-to-date and, as a single authored source, reads evenly and provides great continuity between chapters and sections. It occupies a unique niche and is a valuable contribution to the literature.