Part I Epilepsy Patients and How to Examine Them
Epileptic Seizures and Epilepsy ................................. 3
Horst Urbach and Jörg Wellmer
Classification of Epileptic Seizures ............................ 5
Horst Urbach and Jörg Wellmer
Localization of Focal Seizures ................................. 11
Horst Urbach and Jörg Wellmer
Epilepsy Syndromes ............................................. 15
Horst Urbach, Robert Sassen, and Jörg Wellmer
The Term "Epileptogenic Lesion" and How to Use it .............. 21
Horst Urbach
What To Do After a First Seizure? .............................. 25
Horst Urbach
How to Perform MRI ............................................. 29
Horst Urbach
MRI of Children ................................................ 37
Robert Sassen and Horst Urbach
Functional MRI ................................................. 43
Jörg Wellmer
The Wada Test .................................................. 51
Horst Urbach and Jörg Wellmer
Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in Chronic Epilepsy ............ 57
Friedrich G. Woermann
SPECTandPET .................................................... 63
Wim Van Paesschen, Karolien Goffin, and Koen Van Laere
Morphometric MRI Analysis ...................................... 73
Hans-Jürgen Huppertz
Metallic Implants .............................................. 85
Horst Urbach and Sebastian Flacke
Part II Epileptogenic Lesions
Hippocampal Sclerosis .......................................... 91
Horst Urbach
Limbic Encephalitis ........................................... 101
Horst Urbach and Christian G. Bien
Epilepsy Associated Tumors and Tumor-Like Lesions ............. 109
Horst Urbach
Malformations of Cortical Development ......................... 125
Horst Urbach and Susanne Greschus
Neurocutaneous Diseases (Phakomatoses) ........................ 165
Horst Urbach
Trauma ........................................................ 177
Horst Urbach
Vascular Malformations ........................................ 181
Horst Urbach and Timo Krings
Ischemia ...................................................... 193
Horst Urbach
Infection and Inflammation .................................... 207
Horst Urbach
Rasmussen Encephalitis ........................................ 219
Horst Urbach and Christian G. Bien
Metabolie Disorders ........................................... 227
Horst Urbach and Jens Reimann
Other Epilepsy-Associated Diseases and Differential
Diagnoses ..................................................... 245
Horst Urbach
Postsurgical MRI .............................................. 257
Marec von Lehe and Horst Urbach
Index ......................................................... 267
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