Epilepsy and the ketogenic diet /
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| Imprint: | Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, c2004. |
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| Description: | xx, 352 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Nutrition and health Nutrition and health (Totowa, N.J.) |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5456675 |
Table of Contents:
- An introduction to seizures and epilepsy: cellular mechanisms underlying classification and treatment / Carl E. Stafstrom
- History and origin of the ketogenic diet / James W. Wheless
- The ketogenic diet: the physician's perspective / Eric H. Kossoff and John M. Freeman
- Clinical use of the ketogenic diet: the dietician's role / Beth Zupec-Kania, Rhonda Roel Werner, and Mary L. Zupanc
- How to maintain and support a ketogenic diet program: a nursing perspective / Jeri E. Nichols-Sutherling and Danine Mele-Ha
- Efficacy of the ketogenic diet / James E. Rubenstein and Eileen P.G. Vining
- The ketogenic diet in adults / Michael R. Sperling and Maromi Nei
- Indications and contraindications of the ketogenic diet / Anna Gunhild Christina Bergqvist
- Complications of the ketogenic diet / Karen R. Ballaban-Gil
- Measuring and interpreting ketosis and fatty acid profiles in patients on a high-fat ketogenic diet / Kathy Musa-Veloso and Stephen C. Cunnane
- Insights from neuroimaging studies into ketosis and the ketogenic diet / Jullie W. Pan
- Potential applications of the ketogenic diet in disorders other than epilepsy / Rif S. El-Mallakh
- Dietary treatments for epilepsy other than the ketogenic diet / Carl E. Stafstrom and Gregory L. Holmes
- Effects of the ketogenic diet on cerebral energy metabolism / Douglas R. Nordli Jr. and Darryl C. De Vivo
- The ketogenic diet: interactions with brain amino acid handling / Marc Yudkoff ... [et al.]
- Molecular regulation of ketogenesis / Tim E. Cullingford
- The effects of ketone bodies on neuronal excitability / Sergei S. Likhodii and W. McIntyre Burnham
- Effects of the ketogenic diet on acute seizure models / Douglas A. Eagles and Kristopher J. Bough
- Caloric restriction and epilepsy: historical perspectives, relationship to the ketogenic diet, and analysis in epileptic EL mice / Thomas N. Seyfried, Amanda E. Greene, and Mariana T. Todorova
- The role of norepinephrine in the anticonvulsant mechanism of action of the ketogenic diet / Patricia Szot
- Galanin and neuropeptide Y: orexigenic neuropeptides link food intake, energy homeostasis, and seizure susceptibility / David Weinshenker
- The neuroprotective and antiepileptogenic effects of the ketogenic diet / Jong M. Rho
- Afterword: a parent's perspective on childhood epilepsy / Jim Abrahams.
