RT Journal
A1 Wong VS
T1 The causes of epilepsy: Common and uncommon causes in adults and children
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2012
FD May 9
VO 307
IS 18
SP 1979
OP 1980
DO 10.1001/jama.2012.4478
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.4478
AB 
In The Causes of Epilepsy: Common and Uncommon Causes in Adults and Children, editors Simon Shorvon, Frederick Andermann, and Renzo Guerrini have done an admirable job of creating an organized guide—a self-described “catalog of causes”—to assist with this call for precision. As defined in their introduction, the editors use the well-recognized section headings of idiopathic epilepsy and symptomatic epilepsy. An additional section discusses provoked epilepsies, which the authors propose as an additional category in their classification of epilepsy etiologies. The last section discusses the many causes of status epilepticus. A total of 110 chapters within the sections provide thorough overviews of topics ranging from autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy to Wilson disease.