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This chapter focuses on the classification, presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of syncope, seizures, and epilepsy.

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  1. Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

    Doris Kung

  2. Department of Neurology, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, USA

    Thy Nguyen

  3. Adventist Health, Paradise, CA, USA

    Ritu Das

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Kung, D., Nguyen, T., Das, R. (2019). Epilepsy. In: Absolute Case-Based Neurology Review. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11132-8_4

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