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Helpful, specific, & optimistic
I agree with the other reviewers that this book is parent-friendly, clear, and hopeful. My baby had seizures for two weeks after he was born and it took a while for me to understand what had happened and what to do next. I read two other books before finding "Seizures and Epilepsy in Childhood," and this one was certainly the best. It is thorough and does a great job of explaining that there are many different kinds of seizure disorders and therefore different types of treatment. It dispels many of the myths out there about seizure disorders and says that many children grow out of it. Neurology has grown leaps and bounds in this field in the past 10-15, and it's important to be up-to-date, since many doctors have differing opinions about how to treat seizures. If you're at all confused (like I was), this book is for you.

Calmed, reassured, and prepared our family
What an excellent resource!My child had his first non-febrile tonic clonic seizure and I didn't know how to cope with the unexpectedness of a recurrent seizure.This book truly informs and reassures in parent-friendly terms.

Invaluable
This book provided straightforward, invaluable information to our family when faced with our child's seizure disorder.It explains all the medical terms that our neurologist seemed to throw around without explanation (thereby scaring us!).It is optimistic and practical.It spans everything from how to deal with seizures, the pros and cons of different treatment, and how your child can live a full life.Most of all it put us at ease and educated us as to how to proceed with our child's medical treatment.It also helped guide us with what to tell others - the school, babysitters, grandparents.Definitely a must read for parents dealing with a child with seizures! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Children with Special Needs    2. Consumer Health    3. Convulsions in children    4. Diseases - Nervous System (incl. Brain)    5. Epilepsy in children    6. Health education    7. Health/Fitness    8. Medical    9. Neurology - General    10. Pediatrics    11. Popular works    12. Child care & upbringing    13. Coping with illness    14. Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh    15. Neurology & clinical neurophysiology    16. Paediatric medicine   

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I have a new life.
I have a new life now.After reading this book and Epilepsy: A New Approach by Adrienne Richard and Joel Reiter, M.D. I have a new life.Words cannot not express my gratitude or how this book has changed my life in just a matter of weeks.I've never gone this long without a seizure since I was 13.Usually every week.I think it has almost been 6 weeks now.I can't believe how simple it was.And all I did was the basic things.I still haven't employed everything.I still have my auras but they are changing and I am incorporating more of the strategies to reduce them.I have a new life.If you want to change your life, read these two books.I don't know how to express my thanks to these authors.It has changed my entire outlook and my confidence and my hope for my future.

Be careful when reading this book
I am not a neurologist but have a strong personal interest in epilepsy. I read this book with great care. There are many chapters of significant merit including chapters 10-20. These chapters include the seizure taming effects of relaxation and certain types of music, doing things to prevent seizure progression when an aura is felt, lots of general information on epilepsy that is organized on a gender or age basis, the challenges of finding employment, and advice on a whole host of life issues that people with epilepsy often face. These are even more thoroughly covered in a number of other references which I have also read that come from the medical community.
Great Book
This is a great book and I highly recommend it !I am so happy to have found it! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Alternative Therapies    2. Alternative treatment    3. Consumer Health    4. Diseases - Nervous System (incl. Brain)    5. Epilepsy    6. General    7. Health & Fitness    8. Health/Fitness    9. Naturopathy    10. Coping with illness    11. Health & Fitness / General    12. Popular medicine   

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Very thorough, easy reading!
This book is informative on all aspects of partial seizure disorders, from discovery to diagnosis and treatment. I loved how easy it was to read. I read this book in less than 2 days!My only disappointment is that the book didn't touch a little more on the psychological impact of the disorders (and subsequent consequences).

A quick read....
.......with basic factual info. A must have if you were recently diagnosed with partial seizures.

Fills a needed gap in epilepsy literature
When searching through libraries for information on epilepsy, I've always been able to find a lot of information on generalized seizures and little to no information on partial seizures.There is usually only a paragraph or two on them in books that primarily address other kinds of epilepsy.After repeatedly coming across the same information -- information I already knew -- I was getting tired of looking.Then I found this book, which is the exact opposite -- it is almost entirely about partial seizures, with a few paragraphs at the beginning about generalized seizures.Read more

Subjects:  1. Consumer Health    2. Diseases - Nervous System (incl. Brain)    3. Epilepsy    4. General    5. Health & Fitness    6. Health/Fitness    7. Popular works    8. Diseases & disorders    9. Family & Relationships/General    10. Health & Fitness / Diseases / Nervous System (incl. Brain)    11. Home nursing & caring    12. Neurology & clinical neurophysiology    13. Popular medicine   

Editorial Review

One has good reason to be suspicious of a book that calls itself a "metaphorical memoir." If a metaphor substitutes one thing for another to which it's not ordinarily related, and a memoir relates the personal experiences of the author, then a metaphorical memoir would be... well, lying, if we're going to get technical about it. Or it could be Read more

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Brilliant prose from a trickster of a narrator
Slater insists that her book be characterized as a non-fiction memoir, despite that fact that she freely admits that her account of her epilepsy is factual, symbolic, real, and fantastical all at once.Slater herself isn't always sure which of her memories are true and which are vivid but invented.If the reader can let themselves free in this alternate reality, Slater's memoir makes for fascinating, touching, and chilling reading.She truly brings the reader inside her own confusions about how much of her disease is real and how much fabricated.The short length of the book allows Slater's literary trickery to work well.
Well done, but not quite enough feeling
Lauren Slater's tribute to postmodernism in her "metaphorical memoir" is an interesting exploration of the role of fact in what is true. Where we may tend to regard the objective facts of a situation to be the truth of it, Ms. Slater takes a much more subjective view. She asserts her point, explicitly and in a masterful way woven seemlessly throughout the text, that there may be a more truthful way to relate a situation, a character, an anecdote, than to simply relate the facts.
Another triumph for Slater.
Lauren Slater, Lying (Random House, 2000)
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Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography & Autobiography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Biography/Autobiography    5. Epileptics    6. Health    7. Slater, Lauren    8. Social Scientists & Psychologists    9. Specific Groups - Special Needs    10. Truthfulness and falsehood    11. United States    12. Women    13. Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs   

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Epilepsy and Sleep
Though this is a medical book, I do understand the importance of sleep in relation to seizures.Dr. Dinner, my neurologist at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, wrote a very important book on the relationship between sleep and epilepsy.Those of us with epilepsy have to understnad the importance of getting enough sleep so as to not trigger a seizure.I would recomment this book for medical students. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Epilepsy    2. Health/Fitness    3. Medical    4. Medical / Nursing    5. Neurology - General    6. Neuroscience    7. Psychiatry - General    8. Sleep    9. Sleep Disorders    10. Medical / Neuroscience    11. Medical-Neurology - General    12. Medical-Psychiatry - General    13. Neurology & clinical neurophysiology    14. Sleep & dreams   

Subjects:  1. Diseases    2. Epilepsy    3. Gynecology & Obstetrics    4. Handbooks, manuals, etc    5. Medical    6. Medical / Nursing    7. Neurology - General    8. Women    9. Women's Health - General    10. therapy    11. Medical / Neurology    12. Neurology & clinical neurophysiology    13. Psychiatry    14. Women's health   

Subjects:  1. Diagnosis    2. Epilepsy    3. Medical    4. Medical / Nursing    5. Neurology - General    6. Neuropsychology    7. classification    8. therapy    9. Medical / Pharmacology    10. Neurology & clinical neurophysiology    11. Pharmacology   

Subjects:  1. Epilepsy    2. Life Sciences - Anatomy & Physiology    3. Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics    4. Medical    5. Medical / Nursing    6. Movement Disorders    7. Neurology - General    8. Neurophysiology    9. Medical / Neurology    10. Neurology & clinical neurophysiology   

Subjects:  1. Clinical Psychology    2. Clinical neuropsychology    3. Epilepsy    4. Medical    5. Mental Health    6. Neuropsychology    7. Psychiatry - General    8. Psychology    9. therapy    10. Medical / Psychiatry    11. Medical-Mental Health    12. Physiological & neuro-psychology    13. Psychiatry    14. Psychology & Psychiatry / Neuropsychology    15. Psychology-Clinical Psychology   

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If your child has a seizure, you MUST have this book!!!
I can't begin to describe the grief and fear and utter isolation I felt when my daughter had her second seizure.I remembered that knowledge is power, and I needed to feel powerful.This book gave that to me and so much more!Suddenly terms made sense and I wasn't alone anymore.The section on family coping is amazing: it's as though the authors have reached inside your mind and put down every emotion you've gone through and some that are yet to come.There are case examples throughout that are uplifting, and yes, sometimes a little frightening, but very helpful to read and very enlightening. Most importantly, the book is positive throughout without minimizing what you're dealing with.My only complaint(and this goes for all books, websites, etc) is the use of percentages to illustrate how uncommon different seizure types are, or how many kids outgrow, etc.We already know our kids beat the odds, we don't need to be reminded, and frankly those numbers that in the beginning were a comfort, now are depressing.Again, if a child in your family has seizures, YOU MUST HAVE THIS BOOK!!!

Get this book, very informative, comforting, a must read!
This book contains the answers to most, if not all, of your questions regarding how seizures and epilepsy will affect your child and family. It will also help you know which questions to ask your child's physicians. It is a most complete work. In five sections it describes why seizures occur, diagnosing, treating, coping, and living with epilepsy. Please do yourself a great favor and purchase this book. It is written in language a parent will understand without previous medical knowledge and also it is written with compassion and optimism. I have recommended this book to my family and friends who wish to understand more of how epilepsy is affecting my son's life. You won't be disappointed, buy it today!

Excellent First Book after Diagnosis
Excellent first book after you have received the diagnosis on your child.Good overview. After absorbing this information, you will want to move on to books that deal with the specific type of epilepsy with which your child has been diagnosed. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Convulsions in children    2. Diseases - General    3. Epilepsy    4. Epilepsy in children    5. Family / Parenting / Childbirth    6. General    7. Health/Fitness    8. Pediatric Neurology    9. Popular works    10. Child care & upbringing    11. Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh    12. Neurology & clinical neurophysiology    13. Paediatric medicine   

Subjects:  1. Children with Special Needs    2. Diseases - Nervous System (incl. Brain)    3. Epilepsy    4. Epilepsy in children    5. Medical    6. Medical / Nursing    7. Neurology - General    8. Pediatric Neurology    9. Pediatrics    10. Popular works    11. Diseases & disorders    12. Health & Fitness / Diseases / Nervous System (incl. Brain)    13. Neurology & clinical neurophysiology    14. Paediatric medicine   

Subjects:  1. Diseases    2. Epilepsy    3. Epilepsy literature    4. Epileptics    5. General    6. Health Care Delivery    7. Medical    8. Medical / Nursing    9. Neurology - General    10. Physicians    11. Health systems & services    12. Neurology & clinical neurophysiology   

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A Timid Author With a Powerful Story
From the viewpoint of the disability activist, the only major work on the history of epilepsy should be a civil rights book about the mistreatment of a minority group since ancient times. Dr Temkin will only admit that people with epilepsy have always been "objects of horror and disgust". Beyond that point his book is 2500 years of intellectual history, too much of it elaborate details of long discredited theories. Yet the author's research is so outstanding and his bibliography of 1120 books and articles so complete that anything less than a 5 star rating would be improper. Dr Temkin deserves special credit for uncovering Richard Caton's 1875 article "The Electric Discharges of the Brain". In 2001 the Medieval Madness Syndrome continues of people with epilepsy being rejected by family, friends, and employers because they have a "deliberately chosen illness". Our timid author declines to ask how this could be true 126 years after the actual cause of epilepsy was discovered. But his research demands an answer to that question. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Epilepsy    2. Health/Fitness    3. History    4. Medical / Nursing    5. Neurology - General    6. History of medicine    7. Literary Criticism & Collections / American    8. Neurology & clinical neurophysiology   

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An important tool for everyday living
Parents who must deal with the daily unpredictability of seizures and the side effects of medication often find it confusing to understand what to expect. Growing Up With Epilepsy will appeal to busy parents who want a quick reference guide: information is organized in a manner easy to look up, chapters discuss social and behavioral as well as psychological concerns and issues, and parents receive basic tools to help their kids through all manner of concerns. An important tool for everyday living. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Caregiving    2. Children with Special Needs    3. Consumer Health    4. Diseases - Nervous System (incl. Brain)    5. Epilepsy in children    6. Family & General Practice    7. Medical    8. Neurology - General    9. Parenting - General    10. Popular works    11. Advice on parenting    12. Coping with illness    13. Health & Fitness / Diseases / Nervous System (incl. Brain)    14. Home nursing & caring   

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The Ketogenic Diet: A Treatment for Epilepsy, 3rd Edition
A great book for healthcare professionals and parents who are planning to use this diet for epilepsy treatment.

SEIZURE-FREE!!!!I BOUGHT THIS BOOK AND NEVER LOOKED BACK!
I reluctantly bought this book to join the sea of books I already had regarding seizures and other diagnoses....my son was born disabled and developed seizures shortly after birth.
Excellent and informative!
I read this edition after reading the 2nd edition, and I couldn't be happier with it.This edition includes information about the diet's use in infants, as well as tube feeding issues. I was very glad to see the added info, as my 4 month old son began the diet recently and we're still fine-tuning it.Thanks to this book, not only do I understand more about the diet's "quirks", I feel I'm more able to assist the dietitians and neurologists in the planning of my son's diet.I highly recommend it to anyone who's considering implementing the diet. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Diet / Health / Fitness    2. Diet therapy    3. Diets - Special Conditions    4. Diseases - Nervous System (incl. Brain)    5. Epilepsy    6. Epilepsy in children    7. Health/Fitness    8. Ketogenic diet    9. Medical    10. Pediatric Neurology    11. Pediatrics    12. Coping with illness    13. Diets & dieting    14. Health & wholefood cookery   

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More for epileptologists than epilepsy neurosurgeons
Although I have found this book useful in terms of its general breadth, nonetheless, this is not a book which adequately covers the actual operative techniques applied in the various forms of epilepsy surgery. Thus, this book is more suited to the neurologist or neurology resident than their respective counterparts in neurosurgery. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Epilepsy    2. Medical    3. Medical / Nursing    4. Surgery    5. Surgery - Neurosurgery    6. Medical / Neurology    7. Neurology & clinical neurophysiology    8. Neurosurgery   

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My new life has begun.
I have a completely new life now after reading this book and Treating Epilepsy Naturally by Patricia A. Murphy.These two books have so changed my life that I can hardly believe it.I wish I would have had these books over 20 years ago.But now, I have them and am so grateful.After having a seizure every week I am almost beside myself now that it has been over 6 weeks.And I haven't even tried everything in these books.Just a few.I wish I could give a medal to the authors.I wish I could express my thanks properly.If you have epilepsy or know someone who does, you won't regret reading these books and applying their advice.They are an answered prayer.

A Classic "Must Read" for epilepsy patients, their families and friends and health care providers
In spite of no new edition for ten years, this book is still highly relevent. The information on medication is a bit dated but everything else seems to be timeless.
An excellent book
I bought this book back in 1995, and I still use it. It has chapters on foods and chemicals to avoid, exercises, relaxation... It is very helpful and my seizures have lessened. I cannot guarantee if they lessened due to this book, but I think so (o: ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Diet / Health / Fitness    2. Diseases - General    3. Epilepsy    4. General    5. Neuropsychology    6. Popular works    7. Coping with illness   

Subjects:  1. Children's Books/Young Adult Misc. Nonfiction    2. Children: Grades 2-3    3. Diseases    4. Epilepsy    5. Epilepsy in adolescence    6. Family - General    7. Health & Daily Living - Diseases    8. Juvenile Nonfiction    9. Juvenile literature    10. Coping with personal problems    11. Disability & illness    12. Education / General    13. Popular medicine    14. School Curriculum   

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Comforting
It's nice to read about others experiences going through the unusual process. I have to disagree with her on one thing though. She said that society looks down on you, questions your intelligence and sanity..I NEVER had that problem, probably because I'm a serious smart alec. I guess I have experienced a couple that initially might have questioned my intelligence, but they were judgmental about many others too, so I didnt take it to heart.
Highly Informative
Chilton writes a highly informative and helpful book on brain surgery for the correction of epileptic seizures. It givesmedical information that I, as a brain surgery survivor for epilepsy also, did not have before reading the book.I found this book highly helpful and recommend it to any approaching an opportunity for surgery. --- author, Stephanie S. Sawyer,FACING ME, Breaking the Bonds of Seizure Confinement

An Astonishing View From The Inside
Leanne Chilton's victory is revealed through an emotional journey of chilling, revealing passages into a world many have never understood.It is true that this is must-have information for those suffering seizure disorders.But it is equally true that it speaks of the silent acts of valor that go unseen for their grace and determination.Seizure disorders needn't have touched one's life to draw strength and inspiration from this remarkable work. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Chilton, Leanne    3. Consumer Health    4. Diet / Health / Fitness    5. Diseases - Nervous System (incl. Brain)    6. Epilepsy    7. Epileptics    8. Mental health    9. Recovery    10. Surgery    11. United States   

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By Jenna Martin, Senior Editor
Stacey Chillemi is 32 years old, a mother of three, a wife and writer. Her journey and reason for being is defined each day by the happiness in her children's eyes and the people with epilepsy she has helped through her writing.
Great Book
My name is Donna, and I just want you to know that I bought your book a few years ago and it was very encouraging to me, really did get a lot out of it. EPILEPSY YOU'RE NOT ALONE
I just finished your book Epilepsy; You're not Alone and thought I'd tell you how much I appreciated it.The positive attitude was very refreshing and a welcome change from the "Why me?" stories that I read so often. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Consumer Health    2. Diseases - Brain    3. Diseases - Nervous System (incl. Brain)    4. Medical    5. Epilepsy    6. Popular medicine