Brain development and epilepsy /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Description:	xii, 337 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Epilepsy in children -- Pathogenesis. Developmental neurobiology. Epilepsy -- etiology. Central Nervous System -- embryology. Epilepsy -- in infancy & childhood. Developmental neurobiology.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2346214

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Other authors / contributors:	Schwartzkroin, P. A. (Philip A.)
ISBN:	0195078462 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. A Clinician's Look at the Developmental Neurobiology of Epilepsy
2. Partial (Focal) Seizures in Developing Brain
3. Absence Seizures in Developing Brain
4. Developmental Neuropathology and Childhood Epilepsies
5. Neuronal Identity, Neuronal Migration, and Epileptic Disorders ofthe Cerebral Cortex
6. Regulation of Excitability in Developing Neurons
7. Candidate Genes in the Childhood Epilepsies: Molecular Biologyof Channels and Receptors
8. Synaptogenesis and Epileptogenesis in Developing Neural Networks
9. PLasticity and Repair in the Immature Central Nervous System
10. Seizure-Induced Changes in the Immature Brain
11. Age-Specific Antiepileptic Drug Treatment and Development of Age-Specific Antiepileptic Drugs
Epilogue|D.P. Purpura

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