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Electroclinical features of the psychomotor seizure
Book reviews
ELECTROCLINICAL hv IIK. H. c;. WIESEK. Gustav Fischer Verlag.
FEATURES Stuttgart.
OF THE PSYCHOMOTOR
SEIZURE.
New York. 1983. pp. 242. 123 figs.. 16 tables. DM 128,-.
Heinz Gregor Wieser’s Electroclinical Features of the Psychomotor Seizure is not an easy book to read. Wieser has chosen for a step by step account of his research. The analysis methods are briefly explained. However. only the reader with prior extensive knowledge of cluster analysis will benefit from the detailed presentation\ which form the main body of this volume. The hook is divided m three parts. In the second part detailed descriptions are given of IO patients in order to illustrate the clinical approach and the interpretation of findings from different stages of the examination. This is a fascinating account of the pluriform symptomatology of partial seizures and of the information which can be derived from the intercerebral recording. In part three the problems of subclassifying partial seizures are discussed. With scholarly use of data existing in the literature the author’s findings are skilfully welded into 5 ‘typical seizure constellations’. Seizure ymptomatology thus is correlated with anatomical areas. The author distinguishes a temporohasal-limbic type. a temporal pole type, a frontobasal cingulate type. an opercular type and a posterior neocortical temporal type. Such classification should provide support in the analysis preceding further stereo electro-encephalographic explorations. This book is of importance to all those interested in neuroscience. For epileptologists confronted with the problem of referring patients with intractable epilepsy to the neurosurgeon this book provides an important frame of reference. H. Meinardi.
PARKINSON’S DISEASE. by PROF. DR. w. BIRKMAYER and PROF. DR. P. RIEDERER. Springer Verlag. Wien. New York. 1983. pp. 194. 57 figs.. 480 gramm. 3-2 I I-8 1722-O.
cloth. S 672.-.
Heemstede
DM 96,-.
ISBN
fhis book is the revised and enlarged translation of the German text. which was issued in 1980 and discussed in this journal. volume 83-3. page 181. Melvin D Jahr wrote the foreword. praising the authors: ‘to have all the developments in Parkinson’s Disease of the past decade brought together in a single volume 1s an untold advantage’. Indeed. the book is well updated and the English translation excellent. Although stereotactic surgery in contradiction to the German volume. is mentioned, the authors are still of the opinion that the era of stereotactic intervention has passed. However. likewise my previous opinion. a hook highly recommanded for its concise text and wealth of information. J. P. W. F. Lakke, Groningen
ELECTROCLINICAL hv IIK. H. c;. WIESEK. Gustav Fischer Verlag.
FEATURES Stuttgart.
OF THE PSYCHOMOTOR
SEIZURE.
New York. 1983. pp. 242. 123 figs.. 16 tables. DM 128,-.
Heinz Gregor Wieser’s Electroclinical Features of the Psychomotor Seizure is not an easy book to read. Wieser has chosen for a step by step account of his research. The analysis methods are briefly explained. However. only the reader with prior extensive knowledge of cluster analysis will benefit from the detailed presentation\ which form the main body of this volume. The hook is divided m three parts. In the second part detailed descriptions are given of IO patients in order to illustrate the clinical approach and the interpretation of findings from different stages of the examination. This is a fascinating account of the pluriform symptomatology of partial seizures and of the information which can be derived from the intercerebral recording. In part three the problems of subclassifying partial seizures are discussed. With scholarly use of data existing in the literature the author’s findings are skilfully welded into 5 ‘typical seizure constellations’. Seizure ymptomatology thus is correlated with anatomical areas. The author distinguishes a temporohasal-limbic type. a temporal pole type, a frontobasal cingulate type. an opercular type and a posterior neocortical temporal type. Such classification should provide support in the analysis preceding further stereo electro-encephalographic explorations. This book is of importance to all those interested in neuroscience. For epileptologists confronted with the problem of referring patients with intractable epilepsy to the neurosurgeon this book provides an important frame of reference. H. Meinardi.
PARKINSON’S DISEASE. by PROF. DR. w. BIRKMAYER and PROF. DR. P. RIEDERER. Springer Verlag. Wien. New York. 1983. pp. 194. 57 figs.. 480 gramm. 3-2 I I-8 1722-O.
cloth. S 672.-.
Heemstede
DM 96,-.
ISBN
fhis book is the revised and enlarged translation of the German text. which was issued in 1980 and discussed in this journal. volume 83-3. page 181. Melvin D Jahr wrote the foreword. praising the authors: ‘to have all the developments in Parkinson’s Disease of the past decade brought together in a single volume 1s an untold advantage’. Indeed. the book is well updated and the English translation excellent. Although stereotactic surgery in contradiction to the German volume. is mentioned, the authors are still of the opinion that the era of stereotactic intervention has passed. However. likewise my previous opinion. a hook highly recommanded for its concise text and wealth of information. J. P. W. F. Lakke, Groningen