Book Review

To patients with epilepsy and their relatives, the risk that the disorder will occur in other family members is often a matter of great concern. Though there is a general impression that genetics has an important role in epilepsy, no single genetic mechanism has been identified, and risk figures for genetic counseling have been scattered, inadequate, and often conflicting. Genetics of Epilepsy is useful in that it brings together information from various sources, calls attention to problems in definition and methodology in current data. and defines areas of ignorance. The book lists some 60 single-gene disorders in which epilepsy is . . . No extract is available for articles shorter than 400 words.