The actual causes and main symptoms of epilepsy - China Epilepsy Network

Western medicine divides epilepsy into two major categories according to different causes: idiopathic epilepsy and secondary (symptomatic) epilepsy. The former refers to the condition where there are no structural changes or metabolic abnormalities in the brain of these patients that can explain the symptoms, but rather a closer relationship with genetic factors. Symptomatic epilepsy results from various types of brain damage and metabolic disorders, such as congenital diseases, prenatal and perinatal diseases (birth injuries are a common cause of epilepsy in infancy), sequela of febrile seizures, trauma, infection, poisoning, intracranial tumors, cerebrovascular diseases, nutritional and metabolic diseases, etc.