Just over a century after the publication of Sir William Gowers' famous last
book, The Border-land of Epilepsy, Faints, Vagal Attacks, Vertigo, Migraine,
Sleep Symptoms, and their Treatment, this book returns to the "borderland of
epilepsy - near it, but not of it," i.e. to disorders which may be mistaken for
epilepsy or which are associated with epilepsy and can develop into or out of
epileptic seizures.
Internationally recognized experts, provide up-to-date knowledge in all areas
covered in Gowers' original publication and also in those borderlands redefined
since - including anxiety or hyperventilation attacks, psychogenic nonepileptic
seizures, epileptic and nonepileptic encephalopathies, autism, autoimmune
encephalopathies, Tourette's Syndrome, transient ischemic