Epilepsy Currents, May/June, 2008, Vol. 8, Num. 3

Table of Contents

Clinical Science - Current Review

Seizure Prediction (PDF)
J. Chris Sackellares, MD

Clinical Science - Current Literature

Cognitive Effects of Levetiracetam versus Topiramate (PDF)
Kimford J. Meador, MD

Does Increased Levetiracetam Clearance during Pregnancy Require Planned Intervention? (PDF)
Bassel W. Abou-Khalil, MD

Intravenous Valproate for Status Epilepticus . . . An Effective, Yet Still Merely Empirical Alternative! (PDF)
Andres M. Kanner, MD

Is Topiramate Tops? (PDF)
Elinor Ben-Menachem, MD, PhD

Basic Science - Current Review

Seizures Beget Seizures in Temporal Lobe Epilepsies: The Boomerang Effects of Newly Formed Aberrant Kainatergic Synapses (PDF)
Yehezkel Ben-Ari, PhD, Valérie Crépel, PhD, and Alfonso Représa, PhD

Basic Science - Current Literature

Can Reducing Sugar Retard Kindling? (PDF)
Jong M. Rho, MD

In Search of a New and Improved Target for Antiepileptic Drugs: Sialic Acid? (PDF)
F. Edward Dudek, PhD, and Edward H. Bertram, MD

Innate Immunity and Inflammation in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: New Emphasis on the Role of Complement Activation (PDF)
Annamaria Vezzani, PhD

Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Dendritic Injury after Status Epilepticus (PDF)
Nicholas P. Poolos, MD, PhD

Traffic Jam at the Sodium Channel (PDF)
Carl E. Stafstrom, MD, PhD

“One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer” . . . or Does It? (PDF)
Istvan Mody, PhD