Brain development and epilepsy

Introduction 1. A clinician's look at the developmental neurobiology of epilepsy 2. Partial (focal) seizures in developing brain 3. Absence seizures in developing brain 4. Developmental neuropathology and childhood epilepsies 5. Neuronal identity, neuronal migration and epileptic disorders of the cerebral cortex 6. Regulation of excitability in developing neurons 7. Candidate genes in the childhood epilepsies: Molecular biology of channels and receptors 8. Synaptogenesis and epileptogenesis in developing neural networks 9. Plasticity and repair in the immature central nervous system 10. Seizure-induced changes in the immature brain 11. Age-specific antiepileptic drug treatment and development of new age-specific, antiepileptic drugs Epilogue