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.
A free neurology library for the doctors who meet the brain at the bedside — books, board preparation, guideline updates and articles — with plain-language pages for patients and families in Arabic and English.
Popular: Epilepsy Stroke Coma & ICP FEBN questions NeuroMaze
Swipe for the three largest areas
Short books for one problem at a time — read online or download the PDF.
NeuroMaze: learn neuroanatomy by playingFind structures, trace pathways across the midline and localise lesions from short cases. Free, no account.
When the medicine runs out: neurological patients in armed conflictA narrative review focused on Sudan, with practical measures for clinicians.
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.
Single-best-answer questions across eighteen topics, each with the reasoning behind every option and its source. Tutor or timed exam mode; progress stays on your device.
Decision support, not a diagnosis.
Estimates how likely an event is to be an epileptic seizure, a functional (psychogenic non-epileptic) seizure, syncope or another mimic, and helps localise seizure onset from semiology — built on published semiology data.
Bedside arithmetic, with its sources.
A bedside ICU calculator: infusion and antibiotic dosing, haemodynamics, ventilator settings, blood gases, electrolytes, renal and fluids, scores, antidotes, RSI and a neuroprotective-strategy panel.
Navigate the brain. Master neuroanatomy.
An interactive game for students, trainees and clinicians: find structures on anatomical illustrations, trace sensory and motor pathways across the midline, and localise lesions from short clinical cases. Preview edition: content is source-referenced and awaiting expert review.
The Sleeping Beauties — Suzanne O’Sullivan travels from Sweden to Kazakhstan, Nicaragua and Havana to meet communities struck by illnesses no scan can explain, and makes the case that they are real, not faked, and shaped by the world around the patient.
New article: When the medicine runs out — neurological patients in armed conflict. Epilepsy, stroke, myasthenia and MS when war breaks a health system, with a focus on Sudan.
Mohamed Najm Aldeen Alameen Abdalrahman · MBBS · FEBN · PGDip EM · MRCEM (Secondary) · MSc Neurology (Buckingham, in progress)
Neurologist in neurocritical care and neurological emergencies; Fellow of the European Board of Neurology. Author of The Book of Seizures and the Neurocritical Guide.
ORCID 0009-0001-5506-2757Notes, chapters, cases, question sets or lectures in neurology are welcome and are published under your name after review. Corrections and clinical feedback too.