Epilepsy and the ketogenic diet
By: edited by Carl E. Stafstrom, Jong M. Rho ; foreword by Philip A. Schwartzkroin.
Contributors: Stafstrom, Carl Ernest.; Rho, Jong M.
Series: Nutrition and health; Nutrition and health (Totowa, N.J.)
Publisher: Humana Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Totowa, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Epilepsy -- Diet therapy.; Ketogenic diet.; Epilepsy -- diet therapy.; Dietary Fats -- therapeutic use.; Ketone Bodies -- biosynthesis.; Models, Animal.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: An introduction to seizures and epilepsy: cellular mechanisms underlying classification and treatment / Carl E. Stafstrom; value: History and origin of the ketogenic diet / James W. Wheless; value: The ketogenic diet: the physician's perspective / Eric H. Kossoff and John M. Freeman; value: Clinical use of the ketogenic diet: the dietician's role / Beth Zupec-Kania, Rhonda Roel Werner, and Mary L. Zupanc; value: How to maintain and support a ketogenic diet program: a nursing perspective / Jeri E. Nichols-Sutherling and Danine Mele-Ha; value: Efficacy of the ketogenic diet / James E. Rubenstein and Eileen P.G. Vining; value: The ketogenic diet in adults / Michael R. Sperling and Maromi Nei; value: Indications and contraindications of the ketogenic diet / Anna Gunhild Christina Bergqvist; value: Complications of the ketogenic diet / Karen R. Ballaban-Gil; value: Measuring and interpreting ketosis and fatty acid profiles in patients on a high-fat ketogenic diet / Kathy Musa-Veloso and Stephen C. Cunnane; value: Insights from neuroimaging studies into ketosis and the ketogenic diet / Jullie W. Pan; value: Potential applications of the ketogenic diet in disorders other than epilepsy / Rif S. El-Mallakh; value: Dietary treatments for epilepsy other than the ketogenic diet / Carl E. Stafstrom and Gregory L. Holmes; value: Effects of the ketogenic diet on cerebral energy metabolism / Douglas R. Nordli Jr. and Darryl C. De Vivo; value: The ketogenic diet: interactions with brain amino acid handling / Marc Yudkoff ... [et al.]; value: Molecular regulation of ketogenesis / Tim E. Cullingford; value: The effects of ketone bodies on neuronal excitability / Sergei S. Likhodii and W. McIntyre Burnham; value: Effects of the ketogenic diet on acute seizure models / Douglas A. Eagles and Kristopher J. Bough; value: Caloric restriction and epilepsy: historical perspectives, relationship to the ketogenic diet, and analysis in epileptic EL mice / Thomas N. Seyfried, Amanda E. Greene, and Mariana T. Todorova; value: The role of norepinephrine in the anticonvulsant mechanism of action of the ketogenic diet / Patricia Szot; value: Galanin and neuropeptide Y: orexigenic neuropeptides link food intake, energy homeostasis, and seizure susceptibility / David Weinshenker; value: The neuroprotective and antiepileptogenic effects of the ketogenic diet / Jong M. Rho; value: Afterword: a parent's perspective on childhood epilepsy / Jim Abrahams.