Textbook of Epileptology
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Published: October 18, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781853177415
Subjects: Neurology & clinical neurophysiology; Neurology - General; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Laboratory Medicine; Medical / Laboratory Medicine
First sentence: Hughlings Jackson stated that epilepsy is a result of 'sudden, excessive and rapid discharge of grey matter of some part of the brain', and furthermore that 'according as the seat of the discharging lesion varies, the symptoms of the paroxysm vary.'