Handbook of Pediatric Epilepsy Case Studies, Second Edition

Maria Augusta Montenegro is a pediatric neurologist and epileptologist currently working at Rady Children's Hospital / University of California San Diego School of Medicine. Her clinical expertise is in pediatric epilepsy, with an emphasis on epileptic encephalopathy and EEG. Dr. Montenegro completed medical school, residency, and Ph.D. at the University of Campinas (Brazil) and a post-doctorate research fellowship at Columbia University (NY). Prior to her current position, Dr. Montenegro held an academic faculty appointment at the University of Campinas (Brazil) where she was the head of Pediatric Neurology. Dr. Jong M. Rho is a Professor of Neurosciences, Pediatrics and Pharmacology at the University of California San Diego, and Division Chief of Pediatric Neurology at the Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego. He received a bachelor’s degree in molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale University, and a M.D. from the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Rho has held prior faculty appointments at the University of Washington (Seattle), the University of California at Irvine, the Barrow Neurological Institute (Phoenix), and most recently, the University of Calgary. Dr. Rho's main research interests are the mechanisms underlying the anti-seizure and neuroprotective effects of metabolism-based treatments such as the ketogenic diet. His research activities have been sponsored by research grants from the U.S. National Institutes of Health, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and other public and private sector sources.

Chapter 1. A Pediatric Epilepsy Primer. Chapter 2. Epilepsy Genetics Primer. Chapter 3. Developmental Pharmacokinetics: Principles and Practice. Chapter 4. Dietary Therapies for Epilepsy. Chapter 5. Vagus Nerve Stimulation Therapy. Chapter 6. Neuromodulation Devices: Responsive Neurostimulation and Deep Brain Stimulation. Chapter 7. Epilepsy Surgery in Children. Chapter 8. Status Epilepticus. Chapter 9. Focal Cortical Dysplasia. Chapter 10. Malformations of Cortical Development. Chapter 11. Self-Limited Neonatal Epilepsy Syndromes. Chapter 12. Self-Limited (Familial) Infantile Epilepsy. Chapter 13. Early Myoclonic Encephalopathy (Ohtahara Syndrome). Chapter 14. Early Myoclonic Encephalopathy. Chapter 15. Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy (Neonatal Seizures). Chapter 16. Epilepsy of Infancy with Migrating Focal Seizures. Chapter 17. Febrile Seizures. Chapter 18. Genetic Epilepsy with Febrile Seizures Plus (GEFS+). Chapter 19. Myoclonic Epilepsy of Infancy. Chapter 20. Dravet Syndrome. Chapter 21. Glucose Transporter-1 Deficiency Syndrome. Chapter 22. Infantile Epileptic Spasms Syndrome. Chapter 23. Gelastic Seizures. Chapter 24. Intractable Epilepsy after Herpes Simplex Encephalitis. Chapter 25. Refractory Status Epilepticus. Chapter 26. Primary Mitochondrial Epilepsies. Chapter 27. Tuberous Sclerosis Complex. Chapter 28. Sturge–Weber Syndrome. Chapter 29. Self-Limited Epilepsy with Centrotemporal Spikes (Benign Rolandic Epilepsy). Chapter 30. Self-Limited Epilepsy with Autonomic Seizures (Panayiotopoulos Syndrome). Chapter 31. Childhood Occipital Visual Epilepsy. Chapter 32. Photosensitive Occipital Lobe Epilepsy. Chapter 33. Childhood Absence Epilepsy. Chapter 34. Epilepsy with Myoclonic Absence. Chapter 35. Lennox–Gastaut Syndrome. Chapter 36. Epilepsy with Myoclonic-Atonic Seizures (Doose Syndrome). Chapter 37. Landau–Kleffner Syndrome. Chapter 38. Developmental/Epileptic Encephalopathy with Spike-and-Wave Activation in Sleep (D/EE-SWAS). Chapter 39. Epilepsy with Eyelid Myoclonia (Jeavons Syndrome). Chapter 40. Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis. Chapter 41. Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus. Chapter 42. Febrile Infection-Related Epilepsy Syndrome (FIRES). Chapter 43. New-Onset Refractory Status Epilepticus (NORSE). Chapter 44. Low-Grade Developmental and Epilepsy Associated Brain Tumors. Chapter 45. Rasmussen's Encephalitis. Chapter 46. Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy. Chapter 47 Epilepsy with Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizures Alone. Chapter 48. Juvenile Absence Epilepsy. Chapter 49. New-Onset Seizure in an Adolescent Female. Chapter 50. Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. Chapter 51. Unverricht–Lundborg Disease. Chapter 52. Reflex Seizures. Chapter 53. Sleep-Related Hypermotor Epilepsy. Chapter 54. Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures.