American railroads have always largely depended upon income from the long-distance transportation of heavy freight for economic survival. During the early years of their existence, they had virtually no competition in this aspect of their business, but, as early as the 1920's, the growth of the trucking industry in this country began to bring about changes in this situation. For the truckers found, just as the railroads had learned earlier, that a very profitable part of the transportation business was the long hauling of heavy freight. As the trucking industry became more and more powerful, the competition between it and the railroads for this business became increasingly intense until, during the period following the conclusion of World War II, at least the railroads, if not both of the competing groups, came to view the struggle

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Question 1

How long should antiepileptic treatment be continued for a stroke

patient who has the first seizure within the first 24 hours of the

stroke?

Question 2

For how long should antiepileptic drugs be given to patients having their

first seizure within the first week of their cerebrovascular stroke?

Question 3

What are the causes of epilepsy with a normal electroencephalogram

(EEG), other than metabolic causes? Could epilepsy due to CNS causes

Question 4

What are uncinate fits?

Question 5

Are epileptic fits occurring strictly during sleep pathognomonic for

frontal or temporal lobe epilepsy or any other epileptic syndrome?

Question 6

Despite childhood somnambulism often disappearing later in life, could

its first presentation after puberty on a nearly daily basis, raise the

possibility of frontal lobe epilepsy or other organic pathology? Would an

electroencephalogram (EEG) or polysomnography confirm this?

Question 7

Could masticatory automatisms follow a generalized tonic-clonic fit? If

so, would these or would these not be considered part of the same fit?

Question 8

Is it common for epileptic patients to have postictal vomiting? If so, how

often does this occur?

Question 9

In temporal lobe epilepsy, what is meant by 'cephalic aura' and how does

this manifest itself?

Question 10

What is the difference between pseudoseizures and pseudopseudoseizures?