TY - CHAP
T1 - Epidemiology of Seizure Disorders
AU - Sirven, Joseph I.
PY - 2011/3/18
Y1 - 2011/3/18
KW - Abrupt discontinuation of antiepileptic drugs - sedative, and anxiolytic agents, cause of seizures
KW - Acute symptomatic seizures, differing from epilepsy - each seizure has a clear, identifiable, proximal cause
KW - Epilepsy care in United States - United States (US) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), surveillance work assessing state of epilepsy and seizure care
KW - Epilepsy, at least two unprovoked seizures - separated by a minimum of 24 hours
KW - Epilepsy, one of the most common neurological disorders - encountered by physicians
KW - Incidence of acute symptomatic seizures - higher in men than in women
KW - Neurocysticercosis, a special mention - frequent instances in developing countries
KW - Potential risk factors, toward epilepsy - Alzheimer's disease, head trauma and neurocysticercosis
KW - Risk factors for epilepsy in adults
KW - Seizure disorder epidemiology
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U2 - 10.1002/9780470975039.ch3
DO - 10.1002/9780470975039.ch3
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84886052360
SN - 9780470741221
SP - 19
EP - 26
BT - Adult Epilepsy
PB - John Wiley and Sons
ER -