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Book review
Challenge Epilepsy—New Antiepileptic Drugs
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Challenge Epilepsy—New Antiepileptic Drugs. Edited by stefan, kramer and mamoli. (Pp258 £39.40.) Published by Blackwell Science, Oxford 1998. ISBN 3894123850.
This multiauthor review is based on a symposium on new antiepileptic drugs (AEDs). The book suffers from the usual difficulties with symposia publications including too many chapters which are often too short to usefully summarise the topic in detail but with much repetition and a lack of consistency and style. Nevertheless, excellent practical guidance is given in several chapters, including those on monotherapy, combination therapy, …