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Women with epilepsy : a handbook of health and treatment issues /
In this handbook for sufferers, their clinicians, families and friends, Martha Morrell assembles a team of experts to review the special problems faced by women with epilepsy. In many ways epilepsy is a different disease in women than in men, given the biological and gender differences between the t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
©2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Woman with Epilepsy: Introduction / Martha J. Morrell
- On being a woman with epilepsy / Lisa Lindahl
- The woman with epilepsy: a historical perspective / Orrin Devinsky
- Quality of life issues for women with epilepsy / Joyce A. Cramer
- Epilepsy Diagnosis and Treatment:
- The genetics of epilepsy / Melodie R. Winawer and Ruth Ottman
- Epilepsy: epidemiology, definitions. and diagnostic procedures / Simon Shorvon and Dominic Heaney
- Antiepileptic drugs and other treatments for epilepsy / Jacqueline A. French
- Epilepsy in children and adolescents / Patricia Crumine
- Non-epileptic seizures / Steven C. Schacter
- Hormones and the Brain: Brian differences / Paula Shear and Rosemary Fama
- Sex hormones and how they act on the brain / Philip A. Schwartzkroin
- Epilepsy and the menstrual cycle / Patricia O. Shafer and Andrew D. Herzog
- Menopause and epilepsy / Fariha Abbasi and Allan Krumholz.
- Health Challenges for Women with Epilepsy: Reproductive health for women with epilepsy / Martha J. Morrell
- Sexual dysfunction in epilepsy / Martha J. Morrell
- Bone health in women with epilepsy / Robert Marcus
- Psychiatric complications in epilepsy / Laura Marsh
- Family Planning, Pregnancy and Parenting: Family planning and contraceptive choice / Pamela Crawford
- Pregnancy risks for the woman with epilepsy / Mark Yerby and Yasser Y. El-Sayed
- Risks of birth defects in children born to mothers with epilepsy / Aline T. Derdiarian and Yasser Y. El-Sayed
- Neurocognitive outcome in children of mothers with epilepsy / Kimford J. Meador
- Parents with epilepsy / Mimi Callanan
- Living Well with Epilepsy:
- The impact of epilepsy on relationships / Patricia Gibson
- Parenting the daughter with epilepsy / Joan Kessner Austin and Janet Austin Tooze
- Safety issues for women with epilepsy / Jeanne Carpenter
- Work issues / Jim Troxell
- Appendix: the Epilepsy Foundation's Campaign for Women's Health / Elizabeth A. Borda.