The causes of epilepsy: Changing concepts of etiology of epilepsy over the past 150 years

Epilepsia

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1033-1044

  Shorvon, Simon D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cause of epilepsy; Epilepsy; Etiology of epilepsy; History of epilepsy; Neurological trait

Indexed keywords

AUTOINTOXICATION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN DISEASE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HEREDITY; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC EPILEPSY; INTOXICATION; MEDICAL GENETICS; NERVE DEGENERATION; ORGANIC EPILEPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

BRAIN INJURIES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 79958838457     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2011.03051.x     Document Type: Review

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