Epilepsy (Diseases and Disorders) - Hardcover

Goodfellow, Greg

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1560067012 ISBN 13: 9781560067016

Publisher: Lucent Books, 2005

Synopsis

Discusses the causes, diagnosis, and treatment of epilepsy, the types of seizures, and the challenges of living with the disease.

About this title

From School Library Journal:

Grade 6-9-Two factual and useful books that approach their subjects as "puzzles" for which great strides have been made in the last few decades in terms of diagnosis and treatment. Girod offers a thorough description of Down syndrome, especially how it affects children and their families. The tone is optimistic, emphasizing mainstreaming and integration over sheltered workshops and institutions. Current information is included on the Human Genome Project, Targeted Nutritional Intervention (TNI), and drug therapies. This title compares favorably with Salvatore Tocci's Down Syndrome (Watts, 2000). Goodfellow clearly defines differences between idiopathic (of unknown cause) and symptomatic (resulting from an incident) epilepsy. He emphasizes how difficult diagnosis is, and how very different epilepsy is from more recognizable disorders. This text, too, downplays abnormalities and stresses that seizures can be expected and treated. It's more thorough than Patricia Emanuele's Everything You Need to Know about Epilepsy (Rosen, 2000). Both titles have functional but uninspiring black-and-white photos throughout.
Linda Beck, Indian Valley Public Library, Telford, PA
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lucent Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1560067012
• ISBN 13: 9781560067016
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 95