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Studies have demonstrated that a substantial proportion of patients with other brain diseases like stroke, traumatic brain injury, and dementia will develop epilepsy. This text provides a clear and concise guide to the epidemiology and clinical research on epilepsy as it occurs in the context of other brain diseases.
List of contents
1. Introduction 2. Epilepsy after Stroke and Other Vascular Events 3.Post-traumatic Epilepsy 4. Epilepsy after Brain Infections 5. Immune-Mediated Epilepsy 6. Epilepsy in Dementia 7. Epilepsy in Brain Tumors 8. Psychosocial Consequences of Acquired Epilepsy.
About the author
Johan Zelano is professor of neurology at the University of Gothenburg and Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sweden. His research group focuses on acquired epilepsies and runs a research program comprising population-wide studies on epilepsy in stroke, multiple sclerosis, dementia, brain infections and trauma, and clinical studies on epilepsy biomarkers [2-19]. Professor Zelano is a past president of the Swedish Neurological Society and member of the board of the Swedish Epilepsy Society. He has been a speaker on acquired epilepsy at the three last European congresses of epileptology. In 2019, he co-founded a scientific conference on epilepsy after stroke (Seizures and Stroke), which since 2023 has been transformed into a meeting on all symptomatic and structural epilepsies and attracts participants from all over Europe. He has been associate editor of the scientific journal
Acta Neurologica Scandinavica and currently serves in that role for
Epilepsia Open. He maintains an epilepsy practice at Sahlgrenska University Hospital and is involved in undergraduate and graduate education at the University of Gothenburg.
Summary
Studies have demonstrated that a substantial proportion of patients with other brain diseases like stroke, traumatic brain injury, and dementia will develop epilepsy. This text provides a clear and concise guide to the epidemiology and clinical research on epilepsy as it occurs in the context of other brain diseases.
