Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- I. ANIMAL MODELS -- 1. Behavior-Seizure Correlates in Animal Models of Epilepsy -- 2. Influence of Environment and Social Factors in Animal Models of Epilepsy -- 3. Animal Models of Mood Disorders: Kindling as a Model of Affective Illness Progression -- 4. Cognitive and Affective Effects of Seizures: Immature Developing Animals -- 5. Cognitive and Behavioral Effects of Seizures: Adult Animals -- 6. Cognitive Effects of Antiepileptic Drugs -- II. MECHANISMS UNDERLYING EPILEPSY AND BEHAVIOR -- 7. The Role of Sprouting and Plasticity in Epileptogenesis and Behavior -- 8. Regulation of Neuronal Excitability in the Amygdala and Disturbances in Emotional Behavior -- 9. Computer Simulation of Epilepsy: Implications for Seizure Spread and Behavioral Dysfunction -- III. SEIZURES AND BEHAVIOR -- 10. Neuroethology and Semiology of Seizures -- 11. Neuropsychologic Effects of Seizures -- 12. Seizures and Consciousness -- 13. Postictal Phenomena in Epilepsy -- 14. Behavioral Aspects of Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus -- 15. Reflex Epilepsies -- 16. Behavioral Precipitants of Seizures -- 17. Behaviors Mimicking Seizures in Institutionalized Persons with Epilepsy -- IV. NEUROPSYCHOLOGIC FUNCTION -- 18. Memory Impairment and Its Cognitive Context in Epilepsy -- 19. Cognition -- 20. Atypical Language Organization in Epilepsy -- 21. Interictal Perceptual Function -- 22. Neuropsychologic Aspects of Frontal Lobe Epilepsy -- 23. Social and Emotion Information Processing -- V. NEUROPSYCHIATRIC AND BEHAVIORAL DISORDERS IN PATIENTS WITH EPILEPSY -- 24. Classification of Neuropsychiatric Disorders in Epilepsy -- 25. Mood Disorders in Epilepsy: Two Different Disorders with Common Pathogenic Mechanisms? -- 26. Interictal Dysphoric Disorder -- 27. Epilepsy and Anxiety.

28. Biting Behavior as a Model of Aggression Associated with Seizures -- 29. Psychoses and Forced Normalization -- 30. Conditioning Mechanisms, Behavior Technology, and Contextual Behavior Therapy -- 31. Personality Disorders and Epilepsy -- 32. Frontal Lobe Behavioral Disorders -- 33. Neurophysiologic Correlates of Psychiatric Disorders and Potential Applications in Epilepsy -- VI. EFFECTS OF TREATMENT ON MOOD AND NEUROPSYCHOLOGIC FUNCTION IN ADULTS -- 34. Cognition -- 35. Mood -- VII. EPILEPSY SURGERY -- 36. Presurgical Evaluation for Epilepsy Surgery -- 37. Neuropsychologic Outcomes after Epilepsy Surgery in Children -- 38. Neuropsychologic Outcomes after Epilepsy Surgery in Adults -- 39. Psychiatric Outcomes after Epilepsy Surgery in Adults -- 40. Indicators of Psychosocial Adjustment and Outcome after Epilepsy Surgery -- 41. The Myth of Silent Cortex and the Morbidity of Epileptogenic Tissue: Implications for Temporal Lobectomy -- VIII. PEDIATRIC AND ADOLESCENT EPILEPSY -- 42. Behavioral Aspects of Pediatric Epilepsy Syndromes -- 43. Psychiatric Aspects of Epilepsy in Children -- 44. Behavioral and Psychiatric Effects in Patients with Multiple Disabilities -- 45. Family Factors and Psychopathology in Children with Epilepsy -- 46. Learning and Behavior: Neurocognitive Functions in Children -- 47. The Landau-Kleffner Syndrome and Epilepsy with Continuous Spike-Waves During Sleep -- 48. Effects of Antiepileptic Drugs on Psychiatric and Behavioral Comorbidities in Children and Adolescents -- 49. Social Competence -- 50. Academic Achievement -- 51. Psychosocial Intervention in Pediatric and Adolescent Epilepsy -- IX. OTHER DISORDERS ASSOCIATED WITH EPILEPSY THAT IMPACT BEHAVIOR, MOOD, AND COGNITION -- 52. Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures: An Overview -- 53. Conducting Treatment Trials for Psychologic Nonepileptic Seizures.

54. Cortical Malformations -- 55. Chromosomal Abnormalities -- 56. Autism -- 57. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder -- 58. Migraine in Children and Relation with Psychiatric and Sleep Disorders -- 59. Migraine in Adults -- 60. Brain Tumors in Children -- 61. Brain Tumors in Adults -- 62. Sleep -- X. CONCLUSION -- 63. Historical Perspectives and Future Opportunities -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W,X,Y -- Z.