Epilepsy Books

This is a very informative book. I would recommend to both freinds and family members of Epilepsy patients.

I found this book very beneficial and loaded with many important facts and information for lay people to comprehend.

Great for patients/families with a new diagnosis of epilepsy or someone that has had epilepsy for many years.
Excellent handbook to have available.

This book offers a great overview of epilepsy. I found it up to date and informative. I would highly recommend it for anyone who is newly diagnosed or who has a family member diagnosed with epilepsy.

This book is what it claims to be, a good intelligible guide to epilepsy for non-medics. BUT there is far too little (less than one page) on Sudden Unexplained Death, Epilepsy (SUDEP), which can devastate families and friends. While the mortality rate associated with epilepsy may be small, the effect of sudden death is enormous. Like almost everything else I have read on the subject, this book inadequately recognizes the risks of death. The words "death" and "mortality" are not even in Devinsky's index (though SUDEP is). So -- a good book, with a crucial omission.

This is a book for teenage girls. It is about a girl named Katie who has epilepsy. During a seizure, she is transported back in time to become her great grandmother, Kathryn. Its a cool book with a great concept. I named my daughter after the character of this book. I got it originally as a book club purchase in high school. My copy had deteriorated and I wanted my daughter to read the book where I got her name. After a lot of searching, I found it on Amazon. The book came in excellent condition and was received in a timely manner.

Years after reading this book I searched every used bookstore until I found a copy! There are many out of print books that I read as a child that I would enjoy reading again, but this was my number one priority. It is a masterpeice of mystical time travel.

This book was a favorite of mine when I was a teen-ager. I now have a daughter, and would love for her to read this book. It is about a young girl who is epileptic. She goes on a class trip. She loses her medication and has a seizure. When she awakens, she is now her great-grandmother. This book was exciting and intriguing. I am sorry it is out of print. I hope to find a copy soon!

I have been searching for this book for over 25 years after it was inadvertantly sold at a garage sale one summer. A truly engaging story that brought to life the incredible advances of the past 100 years in medicine and culture around diseases such as epilepsy. The tale is spun in a vivid historical style which moved me in much the same way as Elizabeth George Speare's books "Calico Captive" and "The Witch of Blackbird Pond." A very worthwhile read.

High schooler Katie is going on a summer trip with a likeable group of friends and their history-loving teacher. Katie's epilepsy, now well under control, is only a minor concern for Katie, her Mom and her friends. But when a mixup leaves her without her medication, she is thrown back in time and becomes Kathryn, also dealing with epilepsy, but in the days before the illness was understood and treatable. Kathryn is in great peril, and modern day Katie must act her part and save both of them. This well written and suspenseful tale combines a strong fantasy with a realistic potrait of a young woman handling her medical condition with a level headed maturity. Slightly dated (it was written in 1974; the young women fuss alot about their clothing and "freshen their makeup") it still makes a decent read today. This novel will appeal to preteens who enjoy Nancy Drew and similar mysteries with a strong female protagonist.