STRATEGIES FOR DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY

Recent developments in neuroimaging have advanced our capability to di agnose and perform presurgical evaluations in a large proportion of ch ildren without recourse to invasive monitoring techniques. Functional imaging is also providing us with novel insights into the mechanism of certain childhood epileptic syndromes. The role of anatomic (computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging) and functional (single photon emission computed tomography, positron emission tomography) imaging m odalities in the diagnosis and therapeutic decision making in major ep ileptic syndromes of childhood is reviewed.