This comprehensive text highlights new scientific developments in the management of Landau Kleffner syndrome and related childhood epilepsies. Data from a wide range of epilepsy research combined with the extensive experience of the authors make this volume an essential text for all epileptologists and others managing children with the epilepsy aphasias.

Thierry Deonna is Emeritus Professor of Neurology at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland where he founded and headed the Child Neurology Unit at the University of Lausanne Children's Hospital. His main areas of interest are childhood epilepsy and developmental disorders. He has written over 150 articles and book chapters on general child neurology, language disorders and epilepsy.