Causes of Epilepsy
Symptomatic Epilepsy
Residual epilepsy
e.g. caused by lack of oxygen during birth, or brain damage
Process epilepsy
e.g. caused by a brain tumour or a metabolic disorder
Cryptogenic Epilepsy
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Epilepsy with an unknown cause:
it is not possible to find the cause of about 30% of all cases of epilepsy
Idiopathic Epilepsy
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Genetic epilepsy
mainly a result of the patient's disposition to epilepsy
Deutsches Epilepsiemuseum Kork
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