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Volume 345:1783-1784 December 13, 2001 Number 24
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Psychiatric Issues in Epilepsy: A Practical Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment

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Edited by Alan B. Ettinger and Andres M. Kanner. 400 pp. Philadelphia, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2001. $110. ISBN 0-7817-2176-8.

During the past few years, a number of books have been published examining the psychiatric issues related to epilepsy. These issues appear to be a respectable subject again in neurologic circles, in part because a new generation of neurologists and epileptologists has embraced a wider scope of concern than its predecessors.

Apart from the occasional author from a Latin American country, every contributor to this book comes from the United States — an ironic turn of events, given that American epileptologists since the time of William G. Lennox had vigorously avoided discussing psychiatric issues related to epilepsy, which have been . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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