TY - BOOK ID - 7611983 TI - Jasper's basic mechanisms of the epilepsies AU - Noebels, Jeffrey L AU - Jasper, Herbert H AU - Avoli, Massimo AU - Rogawski, Michael A PY - 2012 SN - 0199746540 0199322813 9786613656902 0199842590 1280679972 9780199842599 9780199746545 PB - New York DB - UniCat KW - Epilepsy -- Congresses. KW - Epilepsy. KW - Pathology, Cellular -- Congresses. KW - Pathology, Molecular -- Congresses. KW - Epilepsy KW - Brain Diseases KW - Central Nervous System Diseases KW - Nervous System Diseases KW - Diseases KW - Medicine KW - Health & Biological Sciences KW - Neurology KW - Convulsions. KW - Convulsive disorders KW - Convulsive seizures KW - Seizures, Convulsive KW - Nervous system KW - Spasms KW - Brain KW - Developmental disabilities KW - Convulsions UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7611983 AB - H.H. Jasper, A.A. Ward, A. Pope and H.H. Merritt, chair of the Public Health Service Advisory Committee on the Epilepsies, National Institutes of Health, published the first volume on Basic Mechanisms of the Epilepsies (BME) in 1969. Their ultimate goal was to search for a ""better understanding of the epilepsies and seek more rational methods of their prevention and treatment."" Since then, basic and clinical researchers in epilepsy have gathered together every decade and a half with these goals in mind -- assessing where epilepsy research has been, what it has accomplished, and where it shou ER -