Treats all aspects of psychiatric complications of epilepsy including patient management

Summarizes the latest studies of the bidirectional relationships of stress/psychiatric disorders and epilepsy

Shares many tips and insights into behavioral testing procedures in animal models of epilepsy

Discovery science chapters.- Effects of AEDs on behaviour.- How to separate effects of seizures when studying behaviour.- Depression-like behaviour in epilepsy models.- Are behavioural deficits core components of epilepsy? .- Does stress trigger seizures: evidence from animal models?.- Early life stress and epilepsy.- disease models and epilepsy.- Disease modification in epilepsy: behavioural accompaniments.- Clinical chapters.- Do psychotropic drugs cause epileptic seizures? A review of the available evidence. Peri-ictal and para-ictal psychiatric phenomena: a relatively common yet unrecognized disorder.- Can we anticipate and prevent the occurrence of iatrogenic psychiatric events caused by antiepileptic drugs and epilepsy surgery?.- Are psychiatric disorders a risk for the development of treatment-resistant epilepsy? Temporal lobectomy: does it worsen or improve presurgical psychiatric disorders?.- Suicidality in epilepsy: does it share common pathogenic mechanisms with epilepsy?.- Psychotic disorders in epilepsy: do they differ from primary psychosis?.- Do neurobiologic aspects of primary psychiatric disorders account for the relatively high prevalence of psychiatric comorbidities in epilepsy?.- Are psychogenic non-epileptic seizures really the expression of a psychogenic process?