The Book of Seizures
From the Babylonian diagnostic tablets to SCN1A antisense trials: semiology, EEG, the syndromes, twenty-seven drugs in full, status epilepticus, and twenty pitfalls written the wrong way round.
Free books and study tools for the doctors who meet the brain at the bedside — in the emergency department, the ICU and the neurology clinic.
A bundle of nerve fibres carrying a signal from one part of the brain to another. The corticospinal tract. The optic tract.
A short written work that argues one thing clearly. Something you read once and keep.
Both are ways information travels. The books here try to be both: anatomically exact, and written well enough that you remember them at three in the morning.
From the Babylonian diagnostic tablets to SCN1A antisense trials: semiology, EEG, the syndromes, twenty-seven drugs in full, status epilepticus, and twenty pitfalls written the wrong way round.
The patient in intensive care who will not wake up: what is broken, where it is, and what to do in the next five minutes. Coma, brainstem, raised ICP, seizures, prognosis and brain death.
Written by a Fellow of the European Board of Neurology, corrected against the guidelines and trials current in 2026.
Eighteen chapters of high-yield neurology for the closed- and open-book components: current criteria, landmark trials and pattern-recognition tables.
All 23 FEBN 2026 reference papers — each guideline's recommendations, the trials that followed, and the angles examiners ask.
MBBS · FEBN · PGDip EM · MRCEM (Secondary) · MSc Neurology, Buckingham (in progress)
ICU physician and neurology specialist, Fellow of the European Board of Neurology. He also writes fiction in Arabic — which may be why readers keep saying the same thing about his first medical book: that it reads like a novelist wrote a neurology text.
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