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edited by J. H. Tyrer, 400 pp, with illus, $29.50, Philadelphia, JB Lippincott Co, 1980.

Robert Gumnit, MD, Reviewer
Department of Neurology St Paul, Ramsey Hospital St Paul, MN 55101

Arch Neurol. 1981;38(12):787.

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This is the fifth in the series on current status of modern therapy published by MTP Press, Lancaster, England, and JB Lippincott Co. The attempt is to bring together an international group of experts, but only three of the 11 chapters did not originate in either Great Britain or Australia. Four of the chapters are rather basic in orientation, dealing with anticonvulsant drugs and membrane effects, biochemical effects, pharmacokinetics, and drug interactions. Four chapters deal with epilepsy in different age groups, one with side effects, one with epilepsy in pregnancy, and the last with status epilepticus.

Books with multiple authorship are almost necessarily uneven. Brian Meldrum gives a particularly clear and useful review of the biochemical effects of anticonvulsants. Aicardi presents a complete, yet understandable, discussion of seizures and epilepsies in children under 2 years of age. The chapter by Parsonage on epilepsy in adults should be required reading for . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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