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Seizure Disorders: Evidence-Based Neuroimaging

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Evidence-Based Neuroimaging Diagnosis and Treatment

Part of the book series: Evidence-Based Imaging ((Evidence-Based Imag.))

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Abstract

A seizure is a symptom; epilepsy is a disease. Seizures occur as the result of an electrical discharge in the brain. Epilepsy is a disease characterized by more than one seizure. The International League Against Epilepsy has proposed a classification of the epileptic syndromes, epilepsies, and related seizure disorders. Generalized and focal seizures are defined as seizures occurring in and rapidly involving bilaterally distributed networks (generalized) and within networks limited to one hemisphere, either discretely localized or more widely distributed (focal). Genetic, structural-metabolic, and unknown represent modified concepts to replace idiopathic, symptomatic, and cryptogenic categories in the prior classification. The causes of epilepsies are organized by electro-clinical syndromes, nonsyndromic epilepsies with structural-metabolic causes, and epilepsies of unknown cause.

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  1. Department of Diagnostic Imaging, University of Toronto/Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Elysa Widjaja

  2. Department of Radiology, Miami Children’s Hospital, Miami, FL, 33155, USA

    Byron Bernal & Nolan Altman

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  1. Division of Neuroradiology-Neuroimaging, Department of Radiology, Miami Children’s Hospital, Miami, FL, USA

    L. Santiago Medina

  2. Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA

    L. Santiago Medina

  3. Former Lecturer in Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    L. Santiago Medina

  4. Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medical College/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA

    Pina C. Sanelli

  5. Department of Radiology, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Jeffrey G. Jarvik

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Widjaja, E., Bernal, B., Altman, N. (2013). Seizure Disorders: Evidence-Based Neuroimaging. In: Medina, L.S., Sanelli, P.C., Jarvik, J.G. (eds) Evidence-Based Neuroimaging Diagnosis and Treatment. Evidence-Based Imaging. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3320-0_16

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