Surgical treatment of the epilepsies

Abstract

Prologue: toward a surgical cure for epilepsy - the work of Wilder Penfield and his school at the Montreal Neurologic Institute, William Feindel. Part 1 Identification of surgical candidates. Part 2 Non-invasive pre-operative evaluation. Part 3 Invasive pre-operative evaluation. Part 4 Surgical treatment. Part 5 Post-operative follow-up. Epilogue: general impressions of the past-present and future, Herbert H. Jasper. Appendices: historical perspectives, Jerome Engel Jr pre-surgical evaluation protocols guidelines for multi-centre research, B. Vickrey et al basic research in the setting of an epilepsy surgery centre, P. Schwartzkroin.