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