1. Approaches to the Diagnosis and Management of Adults With Focal Epilepsy

2. Diagnosing Focal Epilepsy: A Clinical Case

3. Diagnosing Focal Epilepsy: Case History

4. Concepts in Classification of Seizures

5. Recognizing Focal Seizures

6. Determining Structural-Metabolic Cause

7. Remission Rates in Newly Diagnosed Epilepsy

8. Risk of Recurrence: When to Start Treatment

9. Considerations When Starting Treatment

10. Patterns of Response to Treatment

11. Natural History of Epilepsy on AEDs

12. AED Options for Focal Epilepsy: United Kingdom

13. Guidelines: SIGN 143 Diagnosis and Management of Epilepsy in Adults

14. Factors That May Influence Choice of AED

15. Response to AEDs Declines With Successive Regimens

16. Approaches to Epilepsy Treatment

17. When to Substitute and When to Combine Treatment

18. Suggestions for Combining AEDs

19. Time to First Seizure After Temporal Lobe Surgery

20. Concluding Remarks

21. Abbreviations