Edited by C P Panayiotopoulos. Bladon Medical Publishing Limited, Chipping Norton, 2002, £39.95, pp 239. ISBN 1-904218-23-7

This book is a delightful rarity. It represents the distillation of over 30 years and 100 original publications in clinical epileptology and is a fitting culmination to Tom Panayiotopoulos’s distinguished career as an eminent clinical epilepsy specialist. Unashamedly this represents the views of a splitter rather than a lumper when it comes to the classification of syndromes, particularly those affecting children and adolescents. Although the …