Epilepsy Towards the Next Decade New Trends and Hopes in Epileptology /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Striano, Pasquale (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Σειρά: Contemporary Clinical Neuroscience
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Neurology.; Psychiatry.; Clinical psychology.; Biomedicine.; Clinical Psychology.

      A comprehensive collection of the most recent knowledge on the biological bases of various kinds of epilepsies and modern clinical approaches to their treatment. Epilepsy affects about 0.5-1% of the world's population (about 50,000,000 individuals) and the main goal of its treatment is to...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface
• Copy number variants and epilepsy: new emerging syndromes
• Mutations of ion channels in genetic epilepsies
• LGI1 dysfunction in inherited and acquired epileptic disorders
• Glioneuronal tumors and epilepsy: clinico-diagnostic features and surgical strategies
• Metabolic causes of epilepsy
• New insights into mechanisms underlying generalized reflex seizures
• Current status and future prospective of neuroimaging for epilepsy
• The complex relationship between epilepsy and headache and the concept of ictal epileptic headache
• Epilepsy and immune system: a tour around the current literature
• Novel molecular targets for drug-treatment of epilepsy
• Reproductive hormones in epilepsy therapy: from old promises to new hopes
• Neuromodulation for the treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy
• New radiosurgical paradigms to treat epilepsy using synchrotron radiation.