Women with Epilepsy

Esther Bui is Assistant Professor in the Division of Neurology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto. P. Emanuela Voinescu is a physician at Department of Neurology, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, and is affiliated to Harvard University Medical School.

1. Epidemiology of women with epilepsy Kristi McIntosh, Nathalie Jette and Leah Blank; 2. Neruopsychiatric Issues for Women with Epilepsy Dilip Koshy and Benjamin Tolchin; 3. Sleep-related comorbidities in women with epilepsy Milena K. Pavlova and Véronique Latreille; 4. Hormonal influences in women with epilepsy Suchitra Joshi and Jaideep Kapu; 5. Antiseizure medications and hormones Mona Sazgar; 6. Genetic epilepsies in females Paula Teixeira Marques and Danielle Andrade; 7. Gender issues in childhood and adolescence onset epilepsies Arezoo Rezazadeh, Katherine Muir and Tadeu Fantaneanu; 8. Catamenial epilepsy Alexa King and Elizabeth Gerard; 9. Fertility in women with epilepsy Lidia Di Vito, Mark Quigg and Barbara Mostacci; 10. Contraception & pre-pregnancy counseling Naveed Chaudry and Emily Johnson; 11. Teratogenicity and antiseizure medications Anna Serafini; 12. Seizure management in pregnancy Ginette Moores; 13. Obstetric and fetal monitoring in women with epilepsy John Snelgrove and Mathew Sermer; 14. Neuroimaging in pregnancy and epilepsy Paula Alcaide Leon; 15. Obstetrical anesthesia Fatima Zahir, Jonathan Waters and Janet Waters; 16. Postpartum seizure management and safety issues for women with epilepsy Natalia Rincon and Naymee J. Velaz-Ruiz; 17. Breastfeeding and use of antiseizure medications Abrar O. Al-Faraj and Trudy D. Pang; 18. Management of the neonate: clinical examination and surveillance Carlos Ivan Salazar, Eugene Ng and Cecil D. Hahn; 19. Ageing, menopause and bone health in women with epilepsy Alison Pack and Genna Waldman.