Part 1 The prognosis of epilepsy: the natural course of epilepsy - an epidemiologic perspective epileptic syndromes and their prognosis who should consider epilepsy surgery? medical failure in the treatment of epilepsy. Part 2 Preoperative evaluation: physical and chemical methods of activating the epileptic focus long-term monitoring with scalp and sphenoidal electrodes chronic intracranial monitoring techniques functional mapping of language abilities with subdural electrode grids the role of neuropsychological assessment in the presurgical evaluation of the epilepsy surgery patient psychiatric evaluation of patients with unilateral temporal lobectomy for epilepsy intracarotid amobarbital assessment neuroimaging in evaluation of patients for surgery. Part 3 Surgical procedures: focal cortical resections corpus callosotomy hemispherectomy selective amygdalohippocampectomy pediatric epilepsy surgery - special considerations intraoperative electrocorticography and functional mapping. Part 4 Outcome: outcome with respect to seizure frequency neuropsychological outcome of anterior temporal lobectomy psychiatric assessment and temporal lobectomy vocational outcome reoperation for failed epilepsy surgery.
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Wyler et al. (1998) studied this question.