F rontal seizures and epilepsies in children is a comprehensive international review of

basic and clinical research following the Mariani Foundation Colloquium on frontal

lobe epilepsy in childhood and adolescence held at the Milan State University.

Distinguished authors discuss advances in neurogenetics, neuropsychology and imaging.

Autosomal dominant frontal lobe epilepsies and their relations to ion channel dysfunction,

and noninvasive exploration of frontal lobe function in humans and

non-human primates receive particular attention.

This book describes clinical, electroencephalographic and neuroimaging patterns of frontal

lobe epilepsy in detail and reviews advances in medical and surgical treatment.

Frontal lobe epilepsy arises in so large and complex a structure that, not surprisingly,

frontal lobe seizures can develop in any of several brain areas and may spread over

different pathways with clinical manifestations ranging from the subtle to the obvious in

children and adults. Frontal lobe seizures and epilepsies in children devotes several chapters

to the central role of frontal lobe maturation in behaviour and cognitive and linguistic

development, and to the disorders of frontal lobe function that may occur in frontal lobe

epilepsies in the paediatric age group. Many of these are present in well-known epileptic

disorders of particular interest to paediatric neurologists such as the Lennox-Gastaut

syndrome, and the relations between these and recent advances in understanding frontal

lobe epilepsies are also explored.

This latest volume in the Mariani Foundation Paediatric Neurology series discusses frontal

lobe epilepsy and its associated disturbances of brain structure and function in all

their complexity. It will be useful and stimulating reading for paediatric and adult epilepsy

specialists, psychiatrists, neuropsychologists and other behavioural scientists, and

research workers in epileptology.