Epilepsy and Movement Disorders

by Edited by Renzo Guerrini , Jean Aicardi , Frederick Andermann , Mark Hallett

• ISBN13: 9780521771108
• ISBN10: 0521771102
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-12-17
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The boundaries between epilepsy and movement disorders are difficult to define; some syndromes or diseases may combine the two and many manifestations of one are similar to the other. For the first time, a distinguished, international team of specialists comprehensively examines the clinical, neurophysiological, genetic, pharmacological and molecular factors which underlie the relationships and differences between the two disorders. They examine the methods for investigating motor cortex excitability and the electrophysiological and chemical characteristics of epilepsies which resemble movement disorders. They present a scheme for neurophysiological classification of myoclonic epilepsies and myoclonus and give a detailed analysis of the disorders which cause diagnostic problems in children and adults. There is also an innovative, up-to-date review of the genetic syndromes which associate epilepsy and paroxysmal dyskinesias, and a review of the drugs used to treat, or which may precipitate, epilepsy and movement disorders. This is essential reading for clinicians and neuroscientists.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	x
Preface and overview	xix
Renzo Guerrini
Jean Aicardi
Frederick Andermann
Mark Hallett
Epilepsies as channelopathies	1	(14)
Guiliano Avanzini
Louis J. Ptacek
Epilepsy and movement disorders in the GABAA receptor β3 subunit knockout mouse: model of Angelman syndrome	15	(14)
Richard W. Olsen
Timothy M. DeLorey
Genetic reflex epilepsy from chicken to man: relations between genetic reflex epilepsy and movement disorders	29	(18)
Robert Naquet
Cesira Batini
Functional MRI of the motor cortex	47	(12)
Raphael Massarelli
Angelo Gemignani
Michela Tosetti
Domenico Montanaro
Raffaello Cannapicchi
Claudio Munari
Neuromagnetic methods and transcranial magnetic stimulation for testing sensorimotor cortex excitability	59	(18)
Paolo M. Rossini
Alfredo Berardelli
Roberto Cantello
Motor dysfunction resulting from epileptic activity involving the sensorimotor cortex	77	(20)
Renzo Guerrini
Lucio Parmeggiani
Alan Shewmon
Guido Rubboli
Carlo A. Tassinari
Nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy	97	(14)
Paolo Tinuper
Elio Lugaresi
Federico Vigevano
Samuel F. Berkovic
Motor cortex hyperexcitabilty in dystonia	111	(14)
Mark Hallett
The paroxysmal dyskinesias	125	(16)
Nardo Nardocci
Emilio Fernandez-Alvarez
Nicholas W. Wood
Sian D. Spacey
Angelika Richter
Normal startle and startle-induced epileptic seizures	141	(10)
Peter Brown
David R. Fish
Frederick Andermann
Hyperekplexia: genetics and culture-bound stimulus-induced disorders	151	(14)
Andrea Bernasconi
Frederick Andermann
Eva Andermann
Myoclonus and epilepsy	165	(46)
Renzo Guerrini
Paolo Bonanni
John Rothwell
Mark Hallett
The spectrum of epilepsy and movement disorders in EPC	211	(16)
Hannah R. Cock
Simon D. Shorvon
Seizures, myoclonus and cerebellar dysfunction in progressive myoclonus epilepsies	227	(24)
Roberto Michelucci
Jose M. Serratosa
Pierre Genton
Carlo A. Tassinari
Opercular epilepsies with oromotor dysfunction	251	(18)
Javier Salas-Puig
Angeles Perez-Jimenez
Pierre Thomas
Ingrid I. E. Scheffer
Bernardo Dalla Bernardina
Renzo Guerrini
Facial seizures associated with brainstem and cerebellar lesions	269	(10)
A. Simon Harvey
Michael Duchowny
Alexis Arzimanoglou
Jean Aicardi
Neonatal movement disorders: epileptic or non-epileptic	279	(28)
Cesare T. Lombroso
Epileptic and non-epileptic periodic motor phenomena in children with encephalopathy	307	(12)
Giuseppe Gobbi
Antonella Pini
Lucia Fusco
Epileptic stereotypies in children	319	(14)
Thierry Deonna
Martine Fohlen
Claude Jalin
Olivier Delalande
Anna-Lise Ziegler
Eliane Roulet
Non-epileptic paroxysmal eye movements	333	(10)
Emilio Fernandez-Alvarez
Shuddering and benign myoclonus of early infancy	343	(10)
Christa Pachatz
Lucia Fusco
Federico Vigevano
Natalio Fejerman
Roberto Caraballo
Epilepsy and cerebral palsy	353	(6)
John Stephenson
Charlotte Dravet
Sydenham chorea	359	(20)
Marjorie A. Garvey
Fernando R. Asbahr
Alternating hemiplegia of childhood	379	(14)
Jean Aicardi
Motor attacks in Sturge-Weber syndrome	393	(14)
Alexis Arzimanoglou
Syndromes with epilepsy and paroxysmal dyskinesia	407	(14)
Renzo Guerrini
Lucio Parmeggiani
Giorgio Casari
Epilepsy genes: the search grows longer	421	(30)
Antonio V. Delgado-Escueta
Marco T. Medina
Maria Elisa Alonso
G. C. Y. Fong
Genetics of the overlap between epilepsy and movement disorders	451	(14)
Nicholas W. Wood
Lucy Kinton
M. G. Hanna
Seizures and movement disorders precipitated by drugs	465	(46)
Olivier Dulac
Ubaldo Bonuccelli
Steroid responsive motor disorders associated with epilepsy	511	(6)
Brian G. R. Neville
Drugs for epilepsy and movement disorders	517	(31)
Lucio Parmeggiani
Renzo Guerrini
Brian Meldrum
Index	548