Global Perspectives

Editorial - Harry Meinardi

• Epilepsy out of Shadows - M.C. Maheshwari,
  At a meeting "Epilepsy as a public health problem in Europe " in Heidelberg, October 1998, organized by the German government in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the German Chapter of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE), problems of epilepsy care were reviewed. Although the focus was on European conditions, the worldwide situation was taken as a reference. For the Far East Maheshwari presented the following report.
• Epilepsy in Nepal - Olga Eisler and laszlo Lajtai
  Epilepsy is classified as a mental disease in Nepal and comes within the professional remit of psychiatrists. There are twenty psychiatrists and four neurologists in the country
• An Investigation into the Process of Introducing Antiepileptic Treatment into Primary Health Care Services in Western Uganda
  Precis of paper by Dr CH. Kaiser for Master of Science course, University of Heidelberg, Germany
• Status Epilepticus - H Meinardi
  Whether or not the sword of Damocles delivers a deadly blow to a person with epilepsy getting a seizure is usually not death due to nerve cells dying from excessive discharging, but due to consequences such as a fatal fall. In status epilepticus there is a far more direct relation between seizures and fatal outcome.
• From The Literature
  Reflex epilepsy: Clinical and neurophysiological studies in a tropical country in Asia
• In Memoriam Joop Loeber (Johannes Nicolaas Loeber) -1928-1998
  On December 10, 1998 the organizations that work towards eradication suffering from epilepsy lost one of their prominent leaders.