Book contents
- Case Studies in Epilepsy
- Case Studies in Epilepsy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Section 1 Diagnosis
- Case 1 First seizure: is it epilepsy?
- Case 2 Intractable epilepsy and epilepsia partialis continua associated with respiratory chain deficiency
- Case 3 Reasons for violent behavior – when a man strangles his wife
- Case 4 Repetitive monocular eye adduction
- Case 5 Febrile infectious-related epilepsy syndrome (FIRES)
- Case 6 Epileptic seizures as presenting symptom of the shaken baby syndrome
- Case 7 Benign rolandic epilepsy
- Case 8 New onset focal and generalized epilepsy in an elderly patient
- Case 9 When laughing makes the child fall down
- Case 10 Epileptic spasms and abnormal neuronal migration
- Case 11 A feeling of gooseflesh
- Case 12 Generalized epilepsy in adolescence as initial manifestation of Lafora disease
- Case 13 Epilepsy with a right temporal hyperintense lesion in MRI
- Case 14 Epileptic falling seizures associated with seizure-induced cardiac asystole in drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy
- Case 15 Seizures, dementia, and stroke?
- Case 16 Comorbidity in epilepsy – dual pathology resulting in simple focal, complex focal, and tonic–clonic seizures
- Case 17 Minor motor events
- Case 18 Epilepsy in the ring chromosome 20
- Case 19 A late diagnosis of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy
- Case 20 Experiential phenomena in temporal lobe epilepsy
- Case 21 The use of depth EEG (SEEG) recordings in a case of frontal lobe epilepsy
- Case 22 A frontal lobe epilepsy surgery based on totally non-invasive investigations
- Case 23 A young man with reading-induced seizure
- Case 24 The lady from “no-man’s-land”
- Case 25 The man who came (too) late
- Case 26 Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis
- Case 27 Really a cerebrovascular story?
- Case 28 Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy – the ultimate failure
- Case 29 Blind but able to see
- Case 30 Seizure disorder! Really unexpected?
- Case 31 Transient epileptic amnesia in late onset epilepsy
- Case 32 A really unexpected injury?
- Case 33 Epileptic negative myoclonus in benign rolandic epilepsy
- Case 34 Sporadic hemiplegic migraine
- Case 35 A strange symptom: psychotic or ictal?
- Case 36 Hearing voices: focal epilepsy guides diagnosis of genetic disease
- Case 37 Life-threatening status epilepticus due to focal cortical dysplasia
- Case 38 Childhood occipital idiopathic epilepsy
- Section 2 Treatment
- Index
Case 3 - Reasons for violent behavior – when a man strangles his wife
from Section 1 - Diagnosis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2012
Book contents
- Case Studies in Epilepsy
- Case Studies in Epilepsy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Section 1 Diagnosis
- Case 1 First seizure: is it epilepsy?
- Case 2 Intractable epilepsy and epilepsia partialis continua associated with respiratory chain deficiency
- Case 3 Reasons for violent behavior – when a man strangles his wife
- Case 4 Repetitive monocular eye adduction
- Case 5 Febrile infectious-related epilepsy syndrome (FIRES)
- Case 6 Epileptic seizures as presenting symptom of the shaken baby syndrome
- Case 7 Benign rolandic epilepsy
- Case 8 New onset focal and generalized epilepsy in an elderly patient
- Case 9 When laughing makes the child fall down
- Case 10 Epileptic spasms and abnormal neuronal migration
- Case 11 A feeling of gooseflesh
- Case 12 Generalized epilepsy in adolescence as initial manifestation of Lafora disease
- Case 13 Epilepsy with a right temporal hyperintense lesion in MRI
- Case 14 Epileptic falling seizures associated with seizure-induced cardiac asystole in drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy
- Case 15 Seizures, dementia, and stroke?
- Case 16 Comorbidity in epilepsy – dual pathology resulting in simple focal, complex focal, and tonic–clonic seizures
- Case 17 Minor motor events
- Case 18 Epilepsy in the ring chromosome 20
- Case 19 A late diagnosis of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy
- Case 20 Experiential phenomena in temporal lobe epilepsy
- Case 21 The use of depth EEG (SEEG) recordings in a case of frontal lobe epilepsy
- Case 22 A frontal lobe epilepsy surgery based on totally non-invasive investigations
- Case 23 A young man with reading-induced seizure
- Case 24 The lady from “no-man’s-land”
- Case 25 The man who came (too) late
- Case 26 Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis
- Case 27 Really a cerebrovascular story?
- Case 28 Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy – the ultimate failure
- Case 29 Blind but able to see
- Case 30 Seizure disorder! Really unexpected?
- Case 31 Transient epileptic amnesia in late onset epilepsy
- Case 32 A really unexpected injury?
- Case 33 Epileptic negative myoclonus in benign rolandic epilepsy
- Case 34 Sporadic hemiplegic migraine
- Case 35 A strange symptom: psychotic or ictal?
- Case 36 Hearing voices: focal epilepsy guides diagnosis of genetic disease
- Case 37 Life-threatening status epilepticus due to focal cortical dysplasia
- Case 38 Childhood occipital idiopathic epilepsy
- Section 2 Treatment
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Case Studies in EpilepsyCommon and Uncommon Presentations, pp. 6 - 7Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012