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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828078203321

Autore

Hirsch Edouard

Titolo

Generalized seizures : from clinical phenomenology to underlying systems and networks / / Edouard Hirsch [and five others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montrouge : , : John Libbey Eurotext, , [2006]

©2006

ISBN

2-7420-0879-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Collana

Progress in epileptic disorders, , 1777-4284 ; ; volume 2

Soggetti

Epilepsy - Research

Convulsions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Generalized Seizures: From clinical phenomenology to underlying systems and networks""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Workshop""; ""Section I: Generalized seizures and epilepsies: a bilateral “focal� dysfunction?""; ""What is a generalized seizure?""; ""What is Generalized Epilepsy?""; ""Section II : Tonic seizures and brainstem systems""; ""From brainstem to forebrain in generalized animal models of seizures and epilepsies""; ""Systems and network in tonic seizures and epilepsies in humans""; ""Comments from participants""; ""Comments from participants""

""Section III: Absence seizures and cortico-thalamic systems""""Propagation and dynamic processing of cortical paroxysms in the basal ganglia networks during absence seizures""; ""Cortical control of absence seizures: focal initiation, spreading and modulation""; ""Systems and networks in absence seizures and epilepsies in humans""; ""Spike-wave seizures in corticothalamic systems""; ""Section IV: Myoclonic seizures and the frontal lobe""; ""Animal models of myoclonic seizures and epilepsies""; ""Systems and networks in myoclonic seizures and epilepsies""

""Connections between primary reading epilepsy and Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy""""Section V: Primary versus Secondary Tonic-clonic seizures""; ""Behavior, neural circuits and plasticity in acute and chronic models of generalized tonic-clonic seizures""; ""The semiology and



pathophysiology of the secondary generalized tonic-clonic seizures""; ""Tonic-clonic and clonic-tonic-clonic seizures in human primary generalized epilepsies""; ""Section VI: The “cortical� and “centrencephalic� theories revisited""; ""Cortical trigger in generalized seizures""

""Section VII: Phenomenology versus networks: clinical consequences""""Why can some antiepileptic drugs control certain types of seizures and aggravate others?""; ""Section VIII: Concluding remarks""; ""Can we replace the terms “focal� and “generalized�?""