Cleveland Clinic Epilepsy Update & Review Course

Description 

Format: Videos

Edition: 2018

Size: 3.90 GB

Learning Objectives

• Review the Essential Pathophysiology and Classification of the Epilepsies

• Review the pharmacology and action of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs)

• Describe major epileptic syndromes across the age spectrum

• Discuss epilepsy management in women of childbearing age

• Describe surgical treatment options and procedures for patients with medically refractory epilepsy

• Interpret EEG in the ICU and treatment of status epilepticus

• Full Contents

• Defining Epilepsy and Accessing the Magnitude of Its Adverse Impacts: Why Is It Far More Than Seizures Alone? — Anne Berg, PhD

• Classification of Generalized and Focal “Seizures” — Prakash Kotagal, MD

• Epilepsies and Electroclinical Syndromes: Neonatal and Infantile — Elaine Wirrell, MD

• Epilepsies and Electroclinical Syndromes: Childhood — Elaine Wyllie, MD

• Distinctive Epilepsies: Neuro-cutaneous Disorders, Hypothalamic Hamartoma — Ajay Gupta, MD

• Genetic Epilepsies: Clinical Recognition and Identification — Phillip Pearl, MD

• Genetic Testing in Epilepsy: Test Selection and Interpretation — Dennis Lal, PhD

• Epilepsies and Electroclinical Syndromes: Adolescents and Adults — Jessica Fesler, MD

• AED I: Drug Interactions in Epilepsy Practice and First Generation AEDs — Ahsan Moosa Naduvil, MD

• AED II: Evidence-based Use of AEDs and Ketogenic Diet — Elaine Wirrell, MD

• AED III: Evidence-based Use of Newer AEDs and Their Interactions — Andrey Stojic, MD, PhD

• Immune Modulatory Therapies in Epilepsy and Autoimmune Epilepsies — Ahsan Moosa Naduvil, MD

• Semiology and Scalp VEEG Findings: Temporo-Perisylvian Epilepsies — Patrick Chauvel, MD

• Semiology and Scalp EEG Findings: Frontal and Parieto-Occipital Epilepsies — Andreas Alexopoulos, MD, MPH

• Semiology and Scalp VEEG Findings: Special Characteristics in Infants and Young Children — Ajay Gupta, MD

• Localization of Epileptiform Patterns on Scalp EEG and Role of MEG — Richard Burgess, MD, PhD

• MRI in Epilepsy: Structural and Functional MRI — Stephen Jones, MD, PhD

• Medical Intractability and Pre-surgical Evaluation for Epilepsy: Why, When and How? — Lara Jehi, MD

• Role of Nuclear Imaging in Pre-surgical Evaluation of Epilepsy: PET and SPECT — Mykol Larvie, MD

• Post-processing Imaging Techniques (VBM, DTI, QPET), and Multimodal Co-registration — Irene Wang, PhD

• Surgical Techniques in Lesional Epilepsies — William Bingaman, MD

• Invasive EEG Evaluation: Indications, Techniques, and Cortical Stimulation Paradigms — Juan Bulacio, MD

• Intraoperative Neurophysiologic Tests: ECOG, SSEPs and Multi-modal Testing — Ajay Gupta, MD

• Stereo EEG-based Surgical Techniques, and Disconnective and Laser Ablation Surgeries — Jorge Gonzalez-Martinez, MD, PhD

• Neuro-stimulation Devices in Epilepsy — Dileep Nair, MD

• Psychogenic Non-epileptic Seizures: Diagnosis and Management — Jocelyn Bautista, MD

• Psychiatric Comorbidities in Epilepsy and SUDEP — Lara Jehi, MD

• Women and Pregnancy Issues in Epilepsy — Nancy Foldvary Schaefer, DO

• Neuropsychological Testing in Epilepsy and Epilepsy Surgery Candidates — Robyn Busch, PhD

• EEG Developmental Maturation, Neonatal Seizures and Neonatal Encephalopathies — Elia Pestana-Knight, MD

• ICU EEG: Encephalopathic, Periodic and Coma Patterns — Christopher Newey, DO

• Diagnosis and Evidence-based Management of Status Epilepticus — Stephen Hantus, MD