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Show the gene section Etiology should not be confused with provocative factors, as some etiologies will produce an enduring tendency to have seizures. Acute insult versus enduring pathology?

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Gastaut 1970 Etiology ILAE 1989 Etiology Idiopathic: not preceded or occasioned by another disease other than a possible hereditary predisposition Idiopathic defined by age-related onset, clinical, EEG, genetics Cryptogenic: cause hidden or occult, etiology is unknown Luders 1998 Cause SIGN 2005 Probable causes Syncope: transient loss of consciousness due to a sudden decrease in cerebral perfusion of oxygenated blood Engel 2006 Axis 5: Etiology, from a classification of diseases frequently associated with epileptic seizure or epilepsy syndromes when possible, genetic defects, or specific pathological substrates for symptomatic focal epilepsies The intention is that the seizure-type diagnosis will have implications with respect to etiology, approaches to diagnostic evaluation, treatment and prognosis. Scheuermann 2009 Etiological Process: A process in an organism that leads to a subsequent disorder. The etiological process creates the physical basis of that disposition to pathological processes which is the disease Berg 2010 specific underlying cause "cause is no longer equated with prognosis"

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