Meet the editors

Prof. Isam Jaber AL-Zwaini was born on 4 January 1963 in Baghdad, Iraq. After graduation from the AL-Mustansiryia College of Medicine in 1987, he worked as a house officer in different hospitals in Baghdad for 15 months, followed by military service for 3 years. He started his pediatric study in 1991 and gained the Fellowship of Iraqi Commission for Medical Specializations in 1996. He started his work as a lecturer in the Department of

Pediatrics, AL-Anbar Medical College from 1996 to 2001 when he was promoted to Assistant Professor. In 2005, he started working in the Department of Pediatrics, AL-Kindy Medical College, University of Baghdad and was promoted to Professor in 2008. He has an Associate Membership of the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health, UK since 2007. He became Head of the Pediatric Department in AL-Anbar and AL-Kindy Medical College for many years. He has published more than 30 scientific papers in different pediatric fields and he has a special interest in pediatric hematology, neurology, and nutrition.

Assistant Prof. Ban Adbul-Hameed Majeed Albadri was born in 1962 in Baghdad, Iraq. After graduation from the AL-Mustansiryia College of Medicine in 1986, she worked as a house officer in different hospitals in Baghdad for one year. She started her pediatric study in 1991 and was awarded her Higher Diploma in Pediatrics from the Al-Mustansyria Medical College in October 1995. She gained the Fellowship of Iraqi Commission for Med-

ical Specializations in March 1997. She started her work as a pediatrician in Tikrit General Teaching Hospital in April 1997. She applied to AL-Kindy General Hospital as a pediatrician in May 2003 and was appointed as a senior lecturer at AL-Kindy Medical College, Baghdad University in March 2005. She was promoted to Assistant Professor in 2010. She has published many scientific papers in different pediatric fields and she has a special interest in pediatric neurology and nutrition.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

**Section 3**

*and Peter Kaplan*

**Section 4**

Epilepsy and GI Disorders *by Halil Kocamaz and Sedat Işıkay*

**Preface III**

Introduction **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

Epilepsy - Etiological and Pathophysiological Aspect **17**

**Chapter 2 19**

**Chapter 3 33**

Epilepsy - Clinical Presentation and Associated Problem **43**

**Chapter 4 45**

**Chapter 5 65**

Pediatric Epilepsy **75**

**Chapter 6 77**

*by Boulenouar Mesraoua, Dirk Deleu, Hassan Al Hail, Musab Ali, Naim Haddad, Gayane Melykian, Yasser Osman M. Ali, Lubna El Sheikh, Ali A. Asadi-Pooya* 

Cerebroventricular Injection of Cigarette Smoke Condensate Produce Generalized Seizures Decreased by Muscarinic Receptor Antagonist in Rats

Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus in Patients with Altered Mental Status

Introductory Chapter: Epilepsy—The Long Journey of the Sacred Disease

*by Isam Jaber AL-Zwaini and Ban Adbul-Hameed Majeed Albadri*

Inflammation: Cause or Consequence of Epilepsy? *by Vanessa Lin Lin Lee and Mohd. Farooq Shaikh*

*by Jawad Laadraoui and Abderrahman Chait*

Admitted to Hamad General Hospital, Doha, Qatar

Epileptic Encephalopathies in Infants and Children *by Otman Fernandez-Concepcion and Melvin Lopez-Jimenez*
