Pharmacoresistance in Epilepsy From Genes and Molecules to Promising Therapies /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Rocha, Luisa (Editor), Cavalheiro, Esper A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Pharmacology.; Neurology.; Biomedicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.

Although more than 10 new antiepileptic drugs have been developed in the past decade, epilepsy remains resistant to drug therapy in about one-third of patients, many of whom struggle with the disease their entire lives. Managing these patients is a challenge and requires a structured multidisciplina...