Quality of Life in Epilepsy: Beyond Seizure Counts in Assessment and Treatment

Rating:
Summary: Much needed review of QOL in epilepsy
Review: "Quality of Life in Epilepsy" has been an extremely useful resource for me in my investigation of life with this seizure disorder. The subtitle of the book, "Beyond seizure counts in assessment and treatment", is descriptive of a particular concern of mine. Certainly the primary focus of epilepsy research is rightly aimed at the existing treatments of epilepsy and the investigation of new methods of control. The quality of life of those whose seizures have been uncontrollable by existing methods has been greatly ignored. The book addresses the differences in QOL as measured by researchers and the QOL as measured by those with the disorder. The latter aspect of QOL has been too little addressed in other resources. I have had epilepsy for 50 years and still have had a quality life. I highly recommend this book to the lay persons who either live with epilepsy or are otherwise concerned with this disorder as well as to researchers of the topic.

Rating:
Summary: Much needed review of QOL in epilepsy
Review: "Quality of Life in Epilepsy" has been an extremely useful resource for me in my investigation of life with this seizure disorder. The subtitle of the book, "Beyond seizure counts in assessment and treatment", is descriptive of a particular concern of mine. Certainly the primary focus of epilepsy research is rightly aimed at the existing treatments of epilepsy and the investigation of new methods of control. The quality of life of those whose seizures have been uncontrollable by existing methods has been greatly ignored. The book addresses the differences in QOL as measured by researchers and the QOL as measured by those with the disorder. The latter aspect of QOL has been too little addressed in other resources. I have had epilepsy for 50 years and still have had a quality life. I highly recommend this book to the lay persons who either live with epilepsy or are otherwise concerned with this disorder as well as to researchers of the topic.