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| List of Figures and Tables | |
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| Foreword to the Third Edition | |
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| Foreword to the Second Edition | |
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| Foreword to the First Edition | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Why Do Seizures and Epilepsy Occur? | |
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| How the Brain Works: Understanding Seizures and Why There Are So Many Types | |
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| Society: A Model for Disruptions and Seizures | |
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| A Seizure Focus | |
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| Why Do Seizures Occur? | |
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| The Importance of Threshold | |
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| Explaining to Your Child How the Brain Works | |
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| The Kinds of Seizure and Where They Arise in the Brain | |
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| The Many Types of Seizure | |
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| Terms Describing the Phases of a Seizure | |
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| How Are Seizures Classified? | |
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| The Old System: "Grand Mal" and "Petit Mal" Seizures | |
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| The New System: "Generalized" and "Partial" Seizures | |
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| Generalized Seizures | |
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| Absence Seizures | |
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| Myoclonic Seizures | |
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| Atonic Seizures | |
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| Tonic-Clonic Seizures | |
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| Partial (Focal) Seizures and the Anatomy of the Brain | |
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| Motor and Sensory Areas | |
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| The Temporal Lobes: Lateral (Outer) | |
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| The Temporal Lobes: Mesial (Inner) | |
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| The Frontal Lobes | |
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| Other Areas of the Brain: The Occipital Lobes and Parietal Lobes | |
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| Simple Partial Seizures | |
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| With Motor Symptoms or with Sensory Symptoms | |
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| With Autonomic Symptoms | |
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| With Psychic Symptoms | |
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| Complex Partial Seizures | |
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| With Simple Partial Onset | |
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| With Loss of Consciousness at Onset | |
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| Gelastic Seizures | |
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| Differentiating between Types of Seizure | |
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| Locating the Site of Onset | |
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| Diagnosing Seizures and Epilepsy | |
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| How We Diagnose a Seizure and Decide What It Will Mean for Your Child | |
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| Was It a Seizure? | |
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| Provoked and Unprovoked Seizures | |
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| Episodes Often Mistaken for Seizures | |
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| Is It Fainting or a Seizure? | |
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| Is It Daydreaming or a Seizure? | |
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| Tics | |
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| Myoclonic Jerks | |
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| Breathholding Spells | |
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| Migraine Headaches | |
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| Paroxysmal Behavioral Disturbances | |
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| Nonepileptic Seizures (Psychological Seizures, Pseudoseizures) | |
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| The Physician's Evaluation | |
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| How We Evaluate and Think about a First Seizure | |
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| Febrile Seizures | |
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| What Should You Do during a Seizure? | |
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| After the Seizure Is Over | |
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| Questions You Will Ask | |
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| Evaluation of the Child with a First Seizure without Fever | |
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| Decision Making: Assessing Risks and Benefits after a Nonfebrile Seizure | |
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| Whether or Not to Use Medicine | |
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| Decisions about Everyday Life | |
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| What to Do during a Second Big Seizure | |
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| What Should You Not Do? | |
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| What Should You Do? | |
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| When Should You Call for Help or an Ambulance? | |
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| Understanding Your Child's Tests: EEG, CT, and MRI | |
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| The Electroencephalogram (EEG) | |
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| When to Do an EEG | |
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| Performing an EEG | |
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| Sedation for an EEG | |
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| Normalities and Abnormalities on the EEG | |
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| Spikes | |
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| Slowing | |
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| EEG Abnormalities Related to Certain Seizure-Types | |
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| Absence Seizures | |
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| Atypical Absence Seizures | |
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| Other Special Patterns | |
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| Special EEG Procedures | |
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| "Why Do an EEG Anyway?" | |
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| Why Repeat an EEG? | |
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| Intensive EEG Monitoring | |
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| Ambulatory EEG Monitoring | |
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| Video-EEG Monitoring | |
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| CT and MRI Scanning | |
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| CT Scanning | |
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| Why a CT Scan? | |
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| MRI Scanning | |
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| The Epilepsies of Childhood: Special Patterns and Causes | |
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| Epilepsy and Its Special Forms | |
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| Epilepsy Syndromes | |
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| Benign Rolandic Epilepsy | |
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| Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy of Janz | |
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| Infantile Spasms (West Syndrome) | |
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| Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome | |
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| Landau-Kleffner Syndrome and Other Language Impairments | |
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| Neonatal Seizures | |
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| Special Conditions That Cause Epilepsy | |
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| Strokes | |
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| Developmental Abnormalities of the Brain | |
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| Tuberous Sclerosis | |
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| Sturge-Weber Syndrome | |
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| Neurofibromatosis | |
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| Chronic Infections | |
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| Herpes Virus | |
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| HIV Infections (AIDS) | |
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| Rasmussen's Syndrome | |
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| Degenerative Diseases | |
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| Treating Seizures and Epilepsy | |
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| Medical Treatment of Seizures | |
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| Philosophy of Treatment | |
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| How Anticonvulsant Drugs Work in Epilepsy | |
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| Terms You Need to Know | |
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| Blood Levels of Anticonvulsants and the Therapeutic Range | |
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| Common Questions about Blood Levels | |
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| Drug Interactions | |
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| Choosing the Best Medication | |
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| Common Older, "First-Line" Drugs for Partial Seizures and Tonic-Clonic Seizures | |
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| Phenobarbital | |
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| Phenytoin (Dilantin) | |
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| Carbamazepine (Tegretol) | |
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| Valproic Acid (Depakene, Depakote) | |
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| Drugs for Absence and Other Generalized Seizures | |
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| Ethosuximide (Zarontin) | |
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| Valproic Acid (Depakene, Depakote) | |
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| The Benzodiazepines (Diazepam, Clonazepam, Clorazepate, and Lorazepam) | |
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| "Not Approved for Use in Children" | |
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| New Antiepileptic Medications | |
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| Felbamate | |
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| Gabapentin (Neurontin) | |
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| Lamotrigine (Lamictal) | |
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| Topiramate (Topamax) | |
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| Tiagabine (Gabitril) | |
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| Levetiracetam (Keppra) | |
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| Vigabatrin (Sabril) | |
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| Tegretol Analogues (Carbatrol, Tegretol-XR, Oxycarbazepine [Trileptal]) | |
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| Zonisamide (Zonegran) | |
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| How to Choose among the Many New Medications | |
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| Generic Drugs or Brand-Name Drugs? | |
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| Status Epilepticus: A Medical Emergency | |
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| Convulsive Status Epilepticus and Its Treatment | |
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| Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus and Its Treatment | |
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| The Outlook for the Child with Seizures | |
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| What Is the Outlook after a First Seizure? | |
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| What Is the Outlook after a Second Seizure? | |
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| Questions You May Have | |
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| The Ketogenic Diet | |
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| History of the Diet | |
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| What Is the Ketogenic Diet? | |
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| Choosing and Managing the Diet | |
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| Parents' Questions about the Diet | |
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| Vitamins, Minerals, and Complementary and Alternative Therapies for Epilepsy | |
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| Vitamins, Minerals, Other Special Diets | |
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| Vitamins | |
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| Minerals | |
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| Complementary and Alternative Therapies for Epilepsy | |
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| The Theoretical Bases for Evidence-Based Therapies for Epilepsy | |
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| The Theoretical Bases for Alternative and Complementary Therapies for Epilepsy | |
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| Traditional Chinese Medicine | |
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| Chinese Herbal Therapies | |
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| Acupuncture | |
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| Phytotherapy | |
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| Homeopathy | |
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| Adjustments, Manipulations, and Massage | |
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| Chiropractic | |
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| Craniosacral Therapy | |
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| Osteopathy | |
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| Massage | |
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| Oxygen, Hyperbaric Oxygen, and Carbon Dioxide Therapies | |
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| Other New Alternative Therapies | |
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| Cerebellar Stimulation | |
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| Vagus Nerve Stimulation | |
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| Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation | |
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| Biofeedback | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Surgical Approaches to Epilepsy | |
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| Thinking about Surgery | |
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| Tumor Surgery and Epilepsy Surgery | |
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| Surgery for Partial (Focal) Seizures | |
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| General Considerations for Focal Surgery | |
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| Is Your Child a Candidate for Surgery? | |
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| Confirming that Your Child Is a Candidate for Surgery | |
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| Risk-Benefit Discussion with Your Physicians | |
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| Evaluation of Language | |
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| Invasive Studies | |
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| Special Techniques for Localization of the Seizure Focus | |
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| Making the Final Decision | |
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| Including the Child in the Decision | |
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| Surgery for Other Types of Seizures | |
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| Hemispherectomy | |
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| Vagus Nerve Stimulation | |
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| Corpus Callosum Sectioning | |
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| Tips for Parents of Children Undergoing Invasive Monitoring or Surgery | |
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| Monitoring | |
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| Surgery | |
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| The Hospital Routine for Patients Undergoing Surgery | |
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| Coping with Epilepsy | |
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| Coping with Seizures and Epilepsy | |
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| The First "Big" Seizure | |
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| What You Should Know | |
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| What Do You Tell Your Child after a Single Seizure? | |
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| What Do You Tell Other Children after a Single Seizure? | |
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| What Do You Tell Grandparents and Friends after a Single Seizure? | |
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| What Do You Tell the School after a Single Seizure? | |
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| Recurrent Tonic-Clonic Seizures: Epilepsy | |
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| Benign Epilepsy of Childhood | |
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| Controlled Epilepsy of Childhood | |
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| Coming to Terms with Epilepsy: Fear, Grief, Anger, Acceptance | |
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| Helping Your Child Cope with Epilepsy | |
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| What Do You Tell Grandparents and Friends When Seizures Recur? | |
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| What Do You Tell the School and Classmates after Additional Seizures? | |
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| Absence Seizures | |
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| Complex Partial Seizures | |
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| Is Your Child Disabled or Handicapped? | |
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| Coping with the Uncertainties of Seizures and Epilepsy: The Power of Positive Thinking | |
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| A Tale of Two Parents | |
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| The Power of Positive Thinking | |
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| Communicating | |
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| Anxiety, the Greatest Enemy | |
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| Coping with Substantial Handicap: Mental Retardation, Cerebral Palsy, and Difficult-to-Control Seizures | |
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| Coping with Labels | |
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| Mental Retardation | |
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| Commonly Asked Questions | |
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| Cerebral Palsy | |
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| Spastic Hemiparesis | |
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| Spastic Quadriparesis | |
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| Diplegia | |
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| Abnormal Movements | |
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| Difficult-to-Control Seizures | |
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| Coping with Severe Handicap with Epilepsy | |
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| A Parent's Special Needs | |
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| Coping with Shattered Expectations | |
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| Epilepsy as a Psychosocial Disease | |
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| The Child's Self-Perception | |
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| Overprotection and Overindulgence | |
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| Attitudes of Brothers and Sisters | |
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| Sibling Workshops | |
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| Camps | |
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| Attitudes of Friends | |
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| How Common Are Psychosocial Problems? | |
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| Counseling: A Dialogue | |
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| Who Needs Counseling? | |
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| Where Counseling Helped: An Example | |
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| How Do You Help Teenagers Cope? | |
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| Counseling the Younger Child | |
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| Particularly Difficult Circumstances | |
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| Acceptance and Responsibility | |
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| Living with Epilepsy | |
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| School: Learning and Behavior | |
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| Intelligence | |
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| Learning Problems | |
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| Attention Problems and Hyperactivity | |
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| Psychological and Social Problems | |
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| Routine Medical Care and Epilepsy | |
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| Sports and Epilepsy | |
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| Driving and Epilepsy | |
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| Marriage, Pregnancy, and Children | |
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| Marriage and Parenthood | |
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| Risks of Pregnancy while Taking Anticonvulsant Drugs | |
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| Breastfeeding and Birth Control | |
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| "Will My Child Have Neurological Problems?" | |
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| Other Genetic Issues | |
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| Support Services and Additional Information for People with Epilepsy and Their Families | |
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| National and Local Epilepsy Services | |
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| Getting Information | |
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| Epilepsy and the Internet | |
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| Reliable Sourcese of Information | |
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| Selected Bibliography on the Ketogenic Diet | |
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| Insurance and Other Financial Issues | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |