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First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Sixteen contributors revisit the issue and case studies of forced normalization, the term coined in the 1960s by Heinrich Landolt (to whom the volume is dedicated) to describe the "alternative" psychoses sometimes accompanying the apparent normalization of the EEGs of epilepsy patients following drug treatment. The introduction of powerful new anticonvulsant medications (e.g. tiagabine, vigabatrin, and zonisamide), some of which are linked with behavioral problems, renders his long-ignored work and controversy over the historical and neurological correlation between epilepsy as a seizure and psychiatric disorder, relevant again. Distributed in the US by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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