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Editors: Elson L. So, MD and Philippe Ryvlin, MD Publisher: Cambridge University Press – 246 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani It is challenging to find the locations of seizures in MRI-negative epilepsy patients, unlike in cases with MRI-positive epilepsy. This being the case, it is difficult as well o determine the best course of treatment. Compounding this problem is that more and more epilepsy centers worldwide are encountering patients with MRI-negative epilepsy. With the growing number patients not being able to be helped with treatments, specialist clinicians are sharing in professional journals what they’ve learned about pre-surgical evaluation...

Editors: Tim B. Hunter, Mihra S. Taljanovic, and Jason R. Wild Publisher: Cambridge University Press – 342 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This is an unusually interesting and useful book: it provides you images of devices that have special functions. We want to bring your attention to the link we have provided in Section V below the list of chapters. Once you click on the link, you will be provided a wealth of information on orthopedic devices. Be sure to go to it. In his Foreword to this book, Lee F. Rogers writes about a difficulty some physicians...

Editor: Sorin Eremia, MD Publisher: Cambridge University Press – 367 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani There were 17.5 million surgical and minimally-invasive cosmetic procedures performed in United States in 2017, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. This represents a growth of about two percent over the 17.157 million such procedures performed in the previous year 2016. The other 1.8 million were surgical procedures such as breast augmentation, liposuction, nose reshaping, eyelid surgery, and tummy tuck. Of the 17.5 million procedures, the bulk of them, about 15.7 million, or almost 90 percent of the total, were cosmetic...

Editors: Matthew K. Nock, Guilherme Borges, and Yutaka Ono Publisher: Cambridge University Press – 391 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani Russia ranks No.1 in the world in suicides among males, and No. 31 among females, according a January 2018 report of data compiled by the World Health Organization. There were 48.3 among every 100,000 males and 7.5 among every 100,000 females who committed suicide in Russia. The combined ‘both sexes’ number for Russians was nearly 56 (55.8) but that country ranked No.3 with Guyana and Lesotho topping Russia in the combined ranking of males and females together. Our...

Editors: Michael J. Thorpy and Guiseppe Plazzi Publisher: Cambridge University Press – 341 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram This is one of very few books on the market dealing with parasomnias, and it fills a long-awaited and sough need. We found only a handful medical books on this subject, on Amazon. Parasomnias are disorders during sleep that cause abnormal or unnatural behaviors, dreams, emotions, and physical movements including those discussed in Section 5. Some movement disorders are restless leg syndrome (RLS) wherein the sleeping person’s leg keeps on shaking; sleep-related leg cramps; sleep starts, which are sudden jerks;...