The Causes of Epilepsy

Simon Shorvon is Hon Consultant Neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, and Professor Emeritus in Clinical Neurology at University College London. Renzo Guerrini is Professor of Child Neurology and Psychiatry and Director of the Department of Neuroscience at Children's Hospital Anna Meyer, University of Florence, Italy Steven Schachter is Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Chief Academic Officer at the Consortia for Improving Medicine with Innovation & Technology. Eugen Trinka is Chair of the Department of Neurology and Medical Director of the Christian Doppler University Hospital and Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience and Vice Dean for Clinical Affairs of the Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg.

• Part I. Introduction; Part II. Approaches to the Clinical Investigation and Diagnosis of Cause; Part III. Idiopathic Epilepsies; Part IV. Symptomatic Epilepsies of Genetic or Developmental Origin; Part V. Symptomatic Epilepsies of Acquired Origin; Part VI. Provoking Factors and Provoked Epilepsies; Part VII. Status Epilepticus.

'The Editors with this monumental book have proved themselves to be great teachers of the history of neurology and its development that sets a new standard and is unlikely to be surpassed, on this scale, for some time.' Jurg Kesselring, Clinical & Translational Neuroscience