Description:
This volume of International Review of Neurobiology concentrates on modern concepts of focal epileptic networks. The volume addresses specific topics such as seizures (including transition and termination), limbic networks, alteration of metabolism, and neocortical focus and malformation of cortical development, among others.
Published since 1959, International Review of Neurobiology is a well-known series appealing to neuroscientists, clinicians, psychologists, physiologists, and pharmacologists. Led by an internationally renowned editorial board, this important serial publishes both eclectic volumes made up of timely reviews, and thematic volumes that focus on recent progress in a specific area of neurobiology research.
Brief description: Dr. Premysl Jiruska is Associate Professor at the Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic. He received his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Charles University in Prague Czech Republic. fter completing his PhD, he undertook a postdoctoral position in the group of Prof. John Jefferys at the University of Birmingham, focusing on experimental epilepsy research. In 2008 he was awarded a personal Sir Desmond Pond fellowship by Epilepsy Research UK to conduct independent research on the mechanisms involved in the transition from normal brain activity to seizure. Currently, in his research he focuses on mechanisms of ictogenesis and network organization and dynamics of epileptic foci.