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  1. GAYNOR COLE, Consultant Paediatric Neurologist

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    Childhood Epilepsies and Brain Development. Edited by A Nehlig, J Motte, S L Moshé, P Plouin. (Pp 311; hardback: £59.) John Libbey, 1999. ISBN 0 86196 578 7 .

    The challenge of the developmental epilepsies is multifaceted. As clinicians, we have all spent time trying to control the anxiety we feel because of our impotence in the face of intractable epilepsy. The mainspring of our concern is usually not the paroxysmal events themselves but the quite unpredictable cognitive impairment which may accompany these events. Despite great strides being made in our understanding of epilepsy in recent years, we are still …

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