EPILEPTIC SYNDROMES IN INFANCY, CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE – 5TH UPDATED EDITION

• Part I. The syndromic approach of epilepsies
Chapter 1. Classifications: evolving concepts
Chapter 2. Genetic basis of epileptic syndromes “Genetic testing”
Chapter 3. EEG traits and epileptic syndromes
Chapter 4. Syndromes, animal models and brain development
Chapter 5. Syndromes and prognosis
Chapter 6. Syndromes and antiepilepsy drugs
• Part II. Age-dependent syndromes
Chapter 7. Benign familial and non-familial neonatal seizures
Chapter 8. Early severe neonatal and infantile epilepsies
Chapter 9. Infantile spasms
Chapter 10. Idiopathic focal epilepsies in infants
Chapter 11. Dravet syndrome (severe myoclonic epilepsy in infancy)
Chapter 12. Idiopathic myoclonic epilepsies in infancy and early childhood
Chapter 13. Febrile seizures and genetic epilepsy with febrile seizures plus (GEFS+)
Chapter 14. Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
Chapter 15. Idiopathic focal epilepsies in childhood
Chapter 16. Encephalopathy related to status epilepticus during slow sleep (ESES) including Landau-Kleffner syndrome
Chapter 17. Childhood absence epilepsy
Chapter 18. Myoclonic absences and absences with myoclonias
Chapter 19. Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy
Chapter 20. Juvenile absence epilepsy
Chapter 21. Epilepsy with generalized tonic-clonic seizures alone
Chapter 22. Genetically determined focal epilepsies
Chapter 23. Rasmussen’s encephalitis
Chapter 24. The mesio-temporal lobe epilepsy syndrome
Chapter 25. Frontal lobe epilepsy syndromes
Chapter 26. Epileptic syndromes in the elderly
• Part III. Special etiologies and situations
Chapter 27. Myoclonic status in non-progressive encephalopathies (MSNPE)
Chapter 28. Epilepsy and inborn errors of metabolism: a practical approach
Chapter 29. Structural (symptomatic) focal epilepsies of childhood
Chapter 30. Photosensitivity and syndromes
Chapter 31. Complex reflex epilepsies
Chapter 32. Epilepsies and chromosomal disorders
Chapter 33. Progressive myoclonus epilepsies
Chapter 34. Epilepsy and malformations of the cerebral cortex
Chapter 35. Isolated focal (formerly partial) seizures in adolescence

The ultimate reference book : the 5th updated edition of the famous “blue guide”.
Incluided : A DVD with new sequences completes each chapter!
Epileptology changes. The syndromic approach is completed by an etiological approach, based on the major advances in genetics and functional genetics. New entities have found their place, and a purely descriptive, “electroclinical” approach is no longer adapted in many circumstances.
The 5th edition of the Blue Guide includes the most recent advances.
It was necessary to justify the physiological, epidemiologic, genetic and therapeutic approaches and to consider them in the light of the new classification efforts, which are still in the making. Nevertheless, the description of epileptic syndromes, both classical and recent, remains at the core of this book.