Febrile Seizures

New Concepts and Consequences

2nd Edition

Tallie Baram, Shlomo Shinnar, Carl Stafstrom
Elsevier
368 pages
ISBN: 9780323899321
October 2022

The 20 years since the publication of the first edition have witnessed an explosion of new information about febrile seizures, including key advances in the genetics and neurobiological underpinnings of febrile seizures and especially the very long fever-related seizures called febrile status epilepticus. The role of neuroinflammatory factors in the emergence of these seizures and their consequences, the demonstration of unique clinical and neuroradiological aspects of febrile status epilepticus, and the prospect of predictive (bio)markers to identify and characterize cognitive and epilepsy outcomes are exciting and important.