Febrile Seizures

Febrile seizures, the most common type of seizures in infants and young children, continue to be the subject of intense interest and controversy among physicians and researchers. But many unanswered questions remain: How do levers generate seizures; why only in children; why only in some children? Are the seizures dangerous? Do they affect intellectual and learning abilities? Do they lead to brain damage? Do they promote epilepsy? Over the past two decades, a tremendous body of clinical and basic neuroscience research has addressed these questions, but no compendium has brought together the salient information from epidemiological, genetic, clinical, imaging, animal model, and single cell in vitro perspectives. This book spans this remarkable spectrum of approaches to the critical issues of febrile seizures. Each chapter, written by groundbreaking leaders in the field, is pertinent to clinicians who care for children or educate their parents, to those involved in epilepsy research, and to scientists interested in the mechanisms of excitability in the developing brain. Febrile Seizures is written in an approachable style accessible to those with a general interest in these seizures, their etiology, mechanisms, and consequences.