TY  - JOUR
T1  - The causes of epilepsy: Common and uncommon causes in adults and children
AU  - Wong VS
Y1  - 2012/05/09
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2012.4478
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 1979
EP  - 1980
VL  - 307
IS  - 18
N2  - 
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.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2012.4478
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.4478
ER  -