100 Questions & Answers About Epilepsy: .

by Anuradha Singh

Overview

EMPOWER YOURSELF! More than 3 million people in the Unit ed States suffer from epilepsy. Whether you are a newly diagnosed patient or a loved one of someone suffering from the disease, this book offers help. The only text to provide the doctor's and patient's views, 100 Questions & Answers About Epilepsy gives you authoritative, practical answers to your questions about symptoms, diagnosis, risk factors, types of seizures, treatment options, sources of support, and much more. Written by a prominent physician, with actual patient commentary, 100 Questions & Answers About Epilepsy is an invaluable resource for anyone coping with the physical and emotional turmoil of epilepsy. © 2006 | 205 pages

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763733018
Publisher:	Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication date:	03/27/2006
Series:	100 Questions & Answers about
Edition description:	1E
Pages:	205
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Anuradha Singh, MD, is Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology at NYU Medical Center.'Her past academic appointments include Attending Faculty at NYU Comprehensive Epilepsy Center in New York; Fellow, Epilepsy Clinic at NYU Comprehensive Epilepsy Center in New York; Associate Professor in the'Family Medicine Department at Rao Tula Ram Chief Hospital in New Delhi, India; and Assistant Professor'in Family Medicine Department at Health & Family Welfare,'Delhi Administration in Delhi, India. Dr. Singh has been board certified by Clinical Neurophysiology Boards, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, New York State Limited License, New York State Limited Permit, and Indiana State Medical License. Her research interests include the role of biogenic amines in neocortical epilepsies, intraoperative analysis of neurotransmitters in mesial/neocortical epilepsies as the principal investigator; relationship of head trauma-posttraumatic epilepsies, age of onset, surgical outcome and neuropathological findings; reflex epilepsies-cognition induced epilepsy, and their functional MRI correlate; and neuromuscular disorders. Dr. Singh completed her clinical and research fellowships at NYU Comprehensive Medical Center in New York and her medical education at Lady Hardinge Medical College in New Delhi, India and Hans Raj Medical College in Delhi, India. She completed her postdoctoral training internships and residencies at NYU-Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York and in the Department of Internal Medicine at Wyckoff's Heights Medical Center in New York.