Epilepsy Currents, March/April, 2009, Vol. 9, Num. 2

Table of Contents

Clinical Science - Current Review

Driving Issues in Epilepsy: Past, Present, and Future (PDF)
Allan Krumholz, MD

Clinical Science - Current Literature

A Pregnant Pause to Consider Teratogenicity of Topiramate (PDF)
Nathan B. Fountain, MD

Cytokines and Strokes of Ill Fortune (PDF)
Warren T. Blume, MD, CM, FRCPC

Dietary Therapy for Epilepsy: The Advantage of Rapid Onset of Action (PDF)
Bassel W. Abou-Khalil, MD

Screening Bone Mineral Density in Epilepsy: A Call to Action, But What Action? (PDF)
Susan T. Herman, MD

Where in the World Are We? Generalizing the Results of Status Epilepticus Trials (PDF)
Susan T. Herman, MD

Basic Science - Current Review

New Developments in Antiepileptic Drug Resistance: An Integrative View (PDF)
Dieter Schmidt, MD, and Wolfgang L¨oscher, PhD

Basic Science - Current Literature

Arresting a Seizure by Dropping a Little Acid (PDF)
Jong M. Rho, MD

Fast Ripples: What Do New Data about Gap Junctions and Disrupted Spike Firing Reveal about Underlying Mechanisms? (PDF)
Yehezkel Ben-Ari, PhD

Is Modulation of Cortical Synapses after Brain Trauma Homeostatic? or, Since When Is Epilepsy Normal? (PDF)
F. Edward Dudek, PhD

Thalamic Reticular Neurons Are Unexcited by New Stargazer Seizure Mechanism (PDF)
Dane Chetkovich, MD, PhD