Recent advances in epilepsy — 4. T. A. Pedley and B. S. Meldrum. Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh, 1988. No. of pages: 266. Price: £45.00

✍ Scribed by G. K. Wilcock

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 76 KB
• Volume: 4
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0885-6230
• DOI: 10.1002/gps.930040415

✦ Synopsis

This is the fourth volume in this series, and like its predecessors there is an impressive line-up of authors of international repute. There are 12 chapters, the first three of which update our knowledge of anatomical, physiological and biochemical processes underlying brain function. Unless one has a particular interest in epilepsy, these are rather heavy going. The most interesting chapters for clinicians dealing with patients who have epilepsy, but not specializing in this condition, are those on the role of the EEG in diagnosis and management, and that describing new antiepileptic drugs. There are