TY - JOUR T1 - <strong>Seizures and Epilepsy in the Elderly.</strong> JF - Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery &amp; Psychiatry JO - J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry SP - 815 LP - 815 DO - 10.1136/jnnp.63.6.815b VL - 63 IS - 6 AU - MARK MANFORD Y1 - 1997/12/01 UR - http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/63/6/815.3.abstract N2 - Seizures and Epilepsy in the Elderly. Edited bya james rowan and r eugene ramsey. (Pp 343). Published by Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, 1997. ISBN 0-7506-9622-2.The incidence of epilepsy rises sharply over the age of 60 and with an ever-increasing elderly population, it is becoming an area of increasing clinical and social importance. The limitations of current knowledge, especially in relation to treatment and directions for future clinical research, are considered in a valuable penultimate chapter of this book, that would have been well placed at the beginning.The book … ER -