Edited by Simon D. Shorvon, Frederick Andermann, and Renzo Guerrini 790 pp, $195 New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 2011 ISBN-13: 978-0521114479
It is no easy task to classify epileptic seizures and epilepsy etiologies, with a recent commentary citing 9 articles on the topic published in 2011 alone.1 Providing a cause of a patient's seizures is clearly a necessary component of any classification scheme. The commentary also notes the importance of precisely defining the etiology of epilepsy in an individual patient, given its implications for prognosis and treatment.
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 guidea self-described catalog of causesto 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
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