Overview
- Editors:
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Hans Lüders
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Department of Neurology, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, USA
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Ronald P. Lesser
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Department of Neurology, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, USA
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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- Peter Kellaway, Eli M. Mizrahi
Pages 13-47
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- Barbara F. Westmoreland, Manuel R. Gomez
Pages 49-71
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- Gerald Erenberg, Harold H. Morris III
Pages 93-104
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- Manuel R. Gomez, Barbara F. Westmoreland
Pages 105-129
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- Dudley S. Dinner, Hans Lüders, Harold H. Morris III, Ronald P. Lesser
Pages 131-149
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- Bruce J. Fisch, Timothy A. Pedley
Pages 151-185
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- A. David Rothner, Harold H. Morris III
Pages 207-222
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- Ronald P. Lesser, Hans Lüders, Dudley S. Dinner, Harold H. Morris III
Pages 223-278
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- Hans Lüders, Ronald P. Lesser, Dudley S. Dinner, Harold H. Morris III
Pages 303-346
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- Antonio V. Delgado-Escueta, David M. Treiman
Pages 347-391
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Back Matter
Pages 393-399
About this book
Epilepsy is among the most common scourges afflicting the health of humankind and perhaps the most terrifying. In one form or another, it is suffered by one in everyone hundred people on earth, with a disproportionate prevalence at the early and late extremes of life. There is nothing sacred or sanctifying about it in spite of Hippoc rates' terming epilepsy "The Sacred Disease" in a famous treatise. There is nothing ennobling about it despite its occasional designa tion as a "noble disorder" by virtue of i ts having affected the likes of Alexander of Macedon, Julius Caesar and other persons of royal lineage. From time to time, epilepsy is hailed as a condition which is artistically inspirational; Fyodor Dostoyevsky's dependence on his own personal experience with complex partial epilepsy as a source of imagery in the transfiguration scenes of The Brothers Karamazov and as a source of experience in The Idiot is often cited in this respect. In fact, for all its victims in human history, epilepsy has been a sad burden which has disrupted and shortened life, causing suffering and castigation for the duration of their terrestrial journey.
