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Psychiatric Issues in Epilepsy: A Practical Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment
By Alan B. Ettinger and Andres M. Kanner, 2nd ed, 544 pp, $99.
Philadelphia, PA, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006.
ISBN-13 978-0-7817-8591-4.
JAMA. 2007;298:1455-1456.
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Psychiatric Issues in Epilepsy: A Practical Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment is the second edition of a successful guide to the comorbid behavior illnesses that are common in people with epilepsy. The presence of behavioral abnormalities in epilepsy has been long identified, but little emphasis or structure have been provided to the problem addressed by this book.
This reference text is a vastly reconfigured version of the 2001 edition. There are good reasons for this significant change, due to greater information on the many behavioral illnesses associated with epilepsy. The second edition is much larger, now at 547 pages. This textual increase arises partly from several newer sections and partly from more extensive coverage within established chapters.
Structural changes make this edition easier to use than its predecessor. The chapters in the earlier edition were not arranged logically, but the current version is divided into sections on basic concepts including . . . [Full Text of this Article]
George L. Morris III, MD, Reviewer
Regional Epilepsy Program
St Luke's Medical Center
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
george.morris@aurora.org
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