100 Questions & Answers About Your Child's Epilepsy

by Anuradha Singh

Overview

EMPOWER YOURSELF — AND YOUR CHILD!More than 300,000 children under the age of 14 have been diagnosed with epilepsy. 100 Questions and Answers About Your Child’s Epilepsy gives you authoritative, practical answers to your questions about epilepsy diagnosis, treatment options, and management. Written by a childhood epilepsy expert, along with contributions from actual parents and the children and adolescents themselves, this book is an excellent resource for learning and coping with the medical and emotional effects on a child with epilepsy. © 2009 | 254 pages

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763755218
Publisher:	Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication date:	01/06/2009
Series:	100 Questions & Answers about
Edition description:	1E
Pages:	254
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(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.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Basics of Epilepsy
Part 2 Classification of Seizures
Part 3 Diagnostic Testing
Part 4 Treatment
Part 5 Epilepsy & Other Neurological Conditions
Part 6 Miscellaneous
Part 7 Epilepsy Seizures