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Epilepsy and the Corpus Callosum

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Editors:
  1. Alexander G. Reeves

    1. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Hanover, USA

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Table of contents (29 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Anatomy, Development, and Physiology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Anatomy, Development, and Physiology of the Corpus Callosum

      • E. G. Jones
      Pages 3-20

    3. Some Observations on Trajectories and Topography of Commissural Fibers

      • Deepak N. Pandya, Douglas L. Rosene
      Pages 21-39

    4. The Organization of Somatosensory Callosal Projections

      • Herbert P. Killackey
      Pages 41-53

    5. The Corpus Callosum as a Model System in the Study of Mammalian Cerebral Axons

      • Harvey A. Swadlow
      Pages 55-71

  4. Clinical Epilepsy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235
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    2. History of Forebrain Commissurotomy

      • Robert J. Joynt
      Pages 237-241

    3. Corpus Callosum Section For Intractable Epilepsy

      • Peter D. Williamson
      Pages 243-257

    4. Corpus Callosotomy

      • David W. Roberts
      Pages 259-267

    5. Total Corpus Callosotomy for Control of Medically Intractable Epilepsy

      • Alexander G. Reeves, Patrick M. O’Leary
      Pages 269-280

    6. Selective Criteria and Results of Selective Partial Callosotomy

      • Raul Marino Jr., Paulo C. Ragazzo
      Pages 281-301

    7. Anterior Callosotomy in Frontal Lobe Epilepsies

      • Jean-Marc Saint-Hilaire, Normand Giard, Guy Bouvier, Raymonde Labrecque
      Pages 303-314

    8. Electroencephalographic and Clinical Effects of Total Corpus Callosotomy

      • John R. Gates, Robert Maxwell, Ilo E. Leppik, Miguel Fiol, Robert J. Gumnit
      Pages 315-328

    9. Corpus Callosum Section for Control of Clinically and Electroencephalo-Graphically Classified Intractable Seizures

      • Mark Rayport, W. Stephen Corrie, Shirley M. Ferguson
      Pages 329-337
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About this book

InJuly 1982 the first Dartmouth workshop on the corpus callosum took place. A nucleus of basic and clinical scientists was convened to give progress reports of their work on the corpus callosum. This text was subsequently compiled by the various participants from these reports modified by a stimulating cross­ fertilization of ideas and subsequent studies. Four and one-half decades have intervened since Van Wagenen first sectioned the corpus callosum for epilepsy (Van Wagenen and Herren, 1940) and Erickson (1940) demonstrated that the corpus callosum is the major route for generalization of experimentally induced focal cortical epilepsy. During the succeeding 45 years a handful of clinicians has pursued these leads to confirm the therapeutic value of callosotomy for some types of medically intractable generalized epilepsy. Parallel experimental studies with a number of epilepsy models have indicated that the corpus callosum is indeed the major route for seizure generalization, that the brainstem is a secondary and more resistant pathway for seizure generalization, and that most if not all epileptic seizures originate from the cerbral cortex. The unexpected clinical finding that even partial (focal) seizure incidence is modified by callosotomy now has been demonstrated in the laboratory. The various contributors to the clinical and experimental epilepsy sections of this volume have been seminal in these elucidations, as will be evident from their chapters. The section on the development, anatomy, and physiology of the corpus callosum demonstrates that these basic areas of study have not been neglected.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Hanover, USA

    Alexander G. Reeves

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Epilepsy and the Corpus Callosum

  • Editors: Alexander G. Reeves

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2419-5

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1985

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-41848-8Due: 01 May 1985

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-9473-3Published: 27 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-2419-5Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 550

  • Number of Illustrations: 135 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Neurology, Behavioral Sciences

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