Learning Disability and Epilepsy: an Integrative Approach

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Contents
Contributors vii
Preface ix
1 Towards Definitions: Learning Disability, Mentái Handicap and
Intelligence
Stephen W. Brown 1
2 Neuropsychiatric Epidemiology at the Interface between Learning
Disability and Epilepsy
Ennapadam S. Krishnamoorthy 17
3 The Genetics of Learning Disorders
Matti Sillanpaci and Jaana Lahdetie 27
4 Aetiology of Epilepsy and Learning Disorders: Specific Epilepsy
Syndromes; Genetic, Chromosomal and Sporadic Syndromes
Richárd Appleton 47
5 Brain Malformations in Adults
Sanjay. M. Sisodiya 65
6 Mediái Temporal Lobé Structures in Epilepsy and Asperger
Syndrome: Convergence of Evidence for Neural Circuitry
Functions in Emotion
Ekkehart F.A. Staufenberg 85
7 The EEG and Learning Disability
Frank M. C. Besag Hl
8 Ictally-Related Behavioural Syndromes that are Inter-Ictal in
Nature: a Re-Evaluation of Epilepsy and Seizures
Michael R. Trimble 133
9 Anti-Epileptic Drug Treatments in Patients with Learning
Disability
Mike Kerr 141
Continued overleaf
10 On the Use of Psychotropic Drugs in Patients with Learning
Disability and Epilepsy
Michael R. Trimble 161
11 Non-Medical Interventions for People with Epilepsy and
Learning Disability
Tim Betts, Katié Gould and Lyn Greenhill 179
12 The Role of the Epilepsy Speciálist Nurse for People with
Learning Disabilities
Heather Gregory 191
Index 211

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