I would like to acknowledge Dr. Marc Patterson for his extraordinary mentoring and for a very kind and thoughtful foreword. I thank Dr. Paul Moe and Dr. Andy White for their critical review and proofreading. I also thank my colleagues, epilepsy fellows, and neurology residents at the Denver Children's Hospital in the preparation of this book.
I am also deeply grateful to the editorial staff at McGraw-Hill, especially to Anne Sydor, Christine Diedrich, Sherri Souffrance and Priscilla Beer, as well as Sandeep Pannu and Aakriti Kathuria of Thomson Digital, for their generous support and competent assistance.