Epilepsy, psychiatry and learning difficulty
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چکیده
Introduction, Epilepsy: basic mechanisms, Epilepsy: aetiology, Epidemiology of epilepsy, Classification of epilepsy. Management of epilepsy, Treatment, Management of the chronic patient, Anti-epileptic drugs, Counselling and social support for people with epilepsy, Surgical treatment of epilepsy, Other non-medical treatments for epilepsy, Women with epilepsy, Intelligence, learning, cognition and epilepsy, Mental illness and epilepsy, Is it epilepsy? (Non-epileptic seizures) The Paroxysmal disorders, References, Index.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Seizure
دوره 7 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1998