| Epilepsy and the Family, A New Guide updates Richard Lechtenberg's classic handbook for people with seizure disorders and those closest to them. It offers coping strategies for the wide range of practical and emotional challenges that epilepsy can introduce into the family, marital and sexual difficulties, concerns about pregnancy and inheritance, drug compliance and abuse among teenagers, personality changes and suicide. This new guide addresses the questions that adults with epilepsy may be reluctant to ask their physician, and it offers tailored to the special stresses of spouses, parents. and siblings who, like the patient, must live with a seizure disorder. As many as two and a million Americans have epilepsy. Thirty percent of them are children under the age of 18. And there are 125,000 newly diagnosed cases each year. A practicing neurologist with decades of clinical experience. lechtenberg clearly and concisely explains the biology behind this complex and relatively widespread class of diseases. He discusses the various medical condItions that can cause seizures in children and adults and adults and points out that the cause of many seizure disorders is never discovered. Patients who care about them will and authoritative but accessible advice on various and surgical approaches and the information they need to ask informed questions of their doctors. For the medical professional, this book offers important information on how better treat the patient with epilepsy by recognizing the needs of the entire family.
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