Genetics of Focal Epilepsies: Clinical Aspects and Molecular Biology

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John Libbey Eurotext, 1999 - Medical - 286 pages
This volume contains contributions on genetic aspects of a wide range of focal epilepsies. It is based on an international workshop held in Avignon, France in September 1996. Topics covered include: idiopathic age-related focal epilepsies; idiopathic iocal epilepsies in infancy; autosomal dominant focal epilepsies; molecular biology; animals models; and case reports.
 

Contents

The discovery of benign rolandic epilepsy
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The genetics of benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes
35
multifactorial
57
clinical
73
Autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy
81
Genetics of autosomal dominant partial epilepsy with auditory features
95
Autosomal dominant rolandic epilepsy with speech dyspraxia
109
The genetics of febrile convulsions and temporal lobe epilepsy
149
Neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and epilepsy
187
ion channels and paroxysmal disorders of the nervous system
203
Homeobox genes in the developing brain
215
a multifactorial epilepsy model
229
Evidence for supernumerary GABAergic neurons and disinhibition in
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Genetic predisposition to partial focal seizures and to generalized tonicclonic
251
Transgenic animal models of epilepsy
261
Afterword
277

Pathophysiology and genetics of hotwater epilepsy
169

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