Brain Development and Epilepsy

Abstract

edited by Philip A. Schwartzkroin, Solomon L. Moshe, Jeffrey L. Noebels, and John W. Swann, 336 pp., ill., New York, Oxford University Press, 1995, $59.95 The burgeoning fields of childhood epilepsy and both medical and surgical approaches to its treatment have inspired an interest in cerebral development that classical embryology and neurophysiology might never have achieved as abstract academic topics, however deserving on their own merit. This volume and the conference that spawned it are unique in surveying this new field of developmental epileptology and attempting to correlate …