This concluding volume of the Future of the Religious Past series approaches contemporary religion through the lens of practice: the rituals, performances, devotions, and everyday acts through which humans do religion. In spite of predictions about the inevitability of secularism, religion in the twenty-first century remains stubbornly resilient, and Gestures: The Study of Religion as Practice offers a new vantage point from which to see the religious as a category shaped and reshaped by modernity and to encounter religion not as something bounded by doctrines and sacred texts but as lived experience. Twenty-four globally based scholars look to practice to examine such diverse phenomena as human rights, memory, martyrdom, dress and fashion, colonial legacies, blasphemy, mass political action, and the future of secularism.

This concluding volume of the Future of the Religious Past series approaches contemporary religion through the lens of practice: the rituals, performances, devotions, and everyday acts through which humans do religion. In spite of predictions about the inevitability of secularism, religion in the twenty-first century remains stubbornly resilient, and Gestures: The Study of Religion as Practice offers a new vantage point from which to see the religious as a category shaped and reshaped by modernity and to encounter religion not as something bounded by doctrines and sacred texts but as lived experience. Twenty-four globally based scholars look to practice to examine such diverse phenomena as human rights, memory, martyrdom, dress and fashion, colonial legacies, blasphemy, mass political action, and the future of secularism.

The functional anatomy of human somatosensory cortex is of both scientific and clinical interest. Scientifically, it provides insights in information processing in the human brain. Clinically, it helps to avoid neurological deficits by sparing essential brain regions during neurosurgical procedures adjacent to central fissure. In the present study the functional organization of the human somatosensory cortex was investigated with electrophysiological techniques using a combined approach of cortical stimulations and somatosensory evoked responses on electrocorticography, scalp-EEG, and magnetoencephalography. The spatiotemporal structure of the evoked response was studiedwith biophysical modeling techniqueswhich allowed identification of the three-dimensional intracerebral location, time activity, and interaction of the neuronal sources activated following peripheral somatosensory stimulation. Furthermore, the somatotopic organization ofhand and lip somatosensory cortex was investigated. The relative value of invasive (cortical stimulations and electrocorticography) and non-invasive (scalp-EEGand magnetoencephalography) was assessed. The combined use ofscalp-EEG and magnetoencephalography was useful to increase non-invasive localization accuracy. I want to thank several people who significantly contributed in completion of the present work. Univ. -Prof Dr. Luder Deecke, Chairman of the Neurological University Clinic, Vienna, Austria, supported me throughout my career at the Neurological University Clinic in Vienna since 1985. Dr. William W Sutherling, Associate Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who was my advisor during my stay from 1987-1989 at the Department ofNeurology, University of California, Los Angeles where most of the present work was done.

Die Epilepsien zahlen zu den haufigsten schwerwiegenden neurologischen Erkrankungen, deren Klinik, Diagnostik und Behandlung in den letzten Jahren durch die bessere Charakterisierung verschiedener Epilepsiesyndrome, die Verfeinerung von diagnostischen Verfahren und die Einfuhrung neuer Therapieoptionen einen betrachtlichen Wandel erfahren haben. Im vorliegenden Buch werden aktuelle Aspekte der Epidemiologie, der Prognose und des Verlaufs, der Ursachen (inklusive Genetik), der Diagnostik und Differentialdiagnostik, der Klinik (Anfallssemiologie und relevante Epilepsiesyndrome), der Therapie (medikamentose Therapie inklusive neue Antiepileptika, Epilepsiechirurgie, alternative Therapien inklusive ketogene Diat) und der psychosozialen Aspekte der Epilepsien dargestellt. Besonderer Wert wurde dabei auf eine praxisorientierte Darstellung gelegt. Dieses Buch bietet eine Entscheidungsgrundlage im klinischen Alltag und hilft, die diagnostischen und therapeutischen Massnahmen auf eine rationale, dem aktuellsten Wissensstand entsprechende Basis zu stellen."