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Previous Volume 340:1932 June 17, 1999 Number 24

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Edited by Prakash Kotagal and Hans O. Lüders. 587 pp., illustrated. San Diego, Calif., Academic Press, 1999. $159.95. ISBN 0-12-422150-5.

Up to 5 percent of the general population will have seizures during their lifetimes, and in half of those epilepsy will develop. About 1 of every 200 people has medically uncontrolled epilepsy.

Epilepsy substantially disrupts the lives of those it affects, far beyond the time lost to the seizures. Patients with uncontrolled epilepsy lose their driving privileges — a grave imposition in today's wheel-bound society. They are often underemployed, working in occupations in which their seizures can be hidden from an alarmed public. Persons with epilepsy have gradually overcome historical prohibitions against marriage or child rearing, yet many prejudices remain . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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