The Causes of Epilepsy: Common and Uncommon Causes in Adults and Children
Edited by: Simon D. Shorvon, Frederick Andermann, Renzo Guerrini
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
ISBN 978-1-4051-8383-3
pp 790
Causation is an aspect of epilepsy neglected in the scientific literature and in the conceptualization of epilepsy at a clinical and experimental level. It was to remedy this deficiency that this book was conceived. The book opens with a draft etiological classification that goes some way to filling the nosological void. The book is divided into three etiological categories: idiopathic, symptomatic, and provoked epilepsies. Each chapter considers topics in a consistent fashion, dealing with the phenomenon of epilepsy in each etiology, including its epidemiology, clinical features and prognosis, and any specific aspects of treatment. The book is a comprehensive reference work, a catalogue of all important causes of epilepsy, and a clinical tool for all clinicians dealing with patients who have epilepsy. It is aimed at epileptologists and neurologists and provides a distillation of knowledge in a form that is helpful in the clinical setting.
The authorship is drawn from leading international authorities in the field providing an authoritative resource. It provides extensive coverage of the causes of epilepsy in all age groups, both common and rare, in over 100 chapters, and extensive illustrations and tables.
CHAPTER LIST
Foreword
Jerome Engel
Foreword
Sir John Bell
Preface
Simon Shorvon
Section 1 – Introdution
1. Historical introduction
Simon Shorvon
2. The etiological classification of epilepsy
Simon Shorvon
3. Epileptogenesis in idiopathic epilepsy
Snezana Maljevic , Holger Lerche
4. Mechanisms of epileptogenesis in symptomatic epilepsy
Mark Cook
Section 2 – Idiopathic Epilepsy
5. Introduction to the concept of genetic epilepsy
Renzo Guerrini , Simon Shorvon, Frederick Andermann, Eva Andermann
Subsection 2.1 – Pure epilepsies due to single-gene disorders
6. The genetic contribution to epilepsy: the known and missing heritability
Michael Johnson
7. Benign Familial Neonatal seizures
Perrine Plouin
8. Autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy
Paolo Tinuper, Francesca Bisulli
9. Genetic epilepsy with febrile seizures plus
Ingrid Scheffer, Yue-Hua Zhang
10. Severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy or Dravet Syndrome
Carla Marini , Renzo Guerrini
11. Benign adult familial myoclonic epilepsy
Teiichi Onuma
Subsection 2-2 – Pure epilepsies with presumed complex inheritance
12. Idiopathic Generalised Epilepsy
Carlo Marini, Renzo Guerrini
13. Benign Partial Epilepsies of Childhood
Roberto Caraballo, Natalio Fejerman
Section 3 – Symptomatic Epilepsy
14. Introduction to the concept of symptomatic epilepsy
Simon Shorvon
Subsection 3.1 – Epilepsy Syndromes
15. West Syndrome and Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome
Renzo Guerrini, Carla Marini
Subsection 3.2 – Progressive myoclonic epilepsies
16. Unverricht-Lundborg disease
Maria Lehtinen, Anna-Elina Lehesjoki, Reetta Kalviainen
17. Dentato-rubro-pallido-luysian atrophy (DRPLA)
Teiichi Onuma
18. Lafora body disease
Anna Jansen
19. Epilepsy in mitochondrial cytopathies
Laurence Bindoff, Bernt Engelsen
20. Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis
Ruth Williams
21. Sialidosis and Gaucher disease
Silvana Franceschetti, Laura Canafoglia
22. Action myoclonus-renal failure syndrome
Eva Andermann
23. Progressive myoclonic epilepsies: other rarer causes
Frederick Andermann, Eva Andermann
Subsection 3.3 – Neurocutaneous syndromes
24. Tuberous Sclerosis complex
Catherine Chu-Shore, Elizabeth Thiele
25. Neurofibromatosis
Rosalie Ferner and Margaret Jackson
26. Sturge-Weber Syndrome
Alexis ArzimanoglouLeni Panagiotakaki
27. Other neurocutaneous syndromes
Ignacio Pascual-Castroviejo
Subsection 3.4 – Other single-gene disorders with epilepsy as a prominent symptom
28. Angelman syndrome
Bernard Dan, Stewart Boyd
29. Lysosomal disorders and Menkes syndrome
Edwin Kolodny, Swati Sathe
30. Neuroacanthocytosis
Anna Jansen
31. Organic acid, amino acids and peroxisomal disorders.
Maria Alice Donati, Serena Gasperini, Renzo Guerrini
32. Porphyria
Geoffrey Dean, Simon Shorvon
33. Pyridoxine-dependant epilepsy.
Sidney Gospe
34. Rett Syndrome and MECP2 and CDKL5 genotypes
Daniel Glaze
35. Urea cycle disorders
Linda Huh, Kevin Farrell
36. Wilson disease
JM Walshe
37. Disorders of cobalanin and folate metabolism
Michael Shevell, David Watkins, David Rosenblatt
38. Other single gene disorders
Vincent Navarro, Frédéric Sedel
Subsection 3.5 – Disorders of chromosome structure
39. Down syndrome.
Nadia Bahi-Buisson, Monika Eisermann, Olivier Dulac
40. Fragile X syndrome.
Irissa Devine, Carl Stafstrom
41. 4p (Wolf-Hirschhorn) syndrome
Agatino Battaglia
42. Inverted duplicated chromosome 15 (isodicentric chromosome 15)
Agatino Battaglia
43. Ring chromosome 20
Geneviève Bernard, Frederick Andermann
Subsection 3.6 – Developmental anomalies of cerebral structure (cortical dysplasia)
44. Hemimegalencephaly
M Scott Perry, Michael Duchowny
45. Focal cortical dysplasia and related variants
Ruben Kuzniecky
46. Agyria- pachygyria band spectrum
Elena Parrini, Renzo Guerrini
47. Agenesis of the corpus callosum
Dorothy Jones-Davis, Yolanda Lau, Elliott Sherr / Jones Davies
48. Polymicrogyria and schizencephaly
Renzo Guerrini, Carman Barba
49. Periventricular nodular heterotopia
Rahul Tathakrishnan, Yahya Aghakhani, François Dubeau
50. Microcephaly
Elizabeth Ross
51. Arachnoid cysts
Concezio Di Rocco, Gianpiero Tamburrini
52. Malformations of human cerebral cortex
Waney Squier
Subsection 3.7 – Hippocampal sclerosis and prenatal and perinatal injury
53. Hippocampal sclerosis
Fernando Cendes, Márcia Morita
54. Neonatal and postneonatal epilepsy – causes
Lei Mizrahi, Kevin Chapman
55. Cerebral palsy
Sameer Zuberi, Andreas Brunklaus
56. Vaccination and immunization
Simon Shorvon
Subsection 3.8 – Cerebral trauma
57. Open head injury
Flavio Giordano, Barbara Spacca, Lorenzo Genitori
58. Closed head injury
Manuel Muria-Fernandez, Jorge Borneo, Robert Teasell
59. De novo epilepsy after neurosurgery
Charles Polkey
60. Epilepsy after epilepsy surgery
Andre Palmini
61. Non-accidental braininjury
Renzo Guerrini, Alessio De Ciantis
Subsection 3.9 – Cerebral tumor
62. Glioma
William Gray, Henry Bulstrode
63. Ganglioglioma, Dysembryoplastic Neuroepithelial tumour and related tumours
Thomas Jacques, William Harkness
64. Hypothalamic hamartoma and gelastic epilepsy
John Kerrigan
65. Meningiomas
Sumeet Vadera, William Bingaman
66. Metastatic disease
Rolando Del Maestro, Abdulrahman Sabbagh, Ahmed Lary, Marie-Christine Guilot
Subsection 3.10 – Cerebral infection
67. Viral encephalitis
Jane Adcock
68. Bacterial meningitis and focal suppurative intracranial infections in children
Suresh Pujar, Richard Chin
69. Bacterial meningitis and pyogenic abscess in adults
Lina Nashef, Fahmida Chowdhury
70. Malaria
Charles Newton
71. Neurocysticercosis
Hector Garcia
72. Other Parasitic diseases
Manish Modi, Gagandeep and Singh
73. Tuberculosis
Nadir Bharucha, Roberta Raven, Vivek Nambiar
74. HIV infection
P Satischandra, S Sinha
75. Emerging and less common central nervous system viral encephalitides
HT Chong, CTTan
Subsection 3.11 – Cerebrovascular disease
76. Cerebral haemorrhage
Henry Dinsdale
77. Cerebral infarction and occult degenerative cerebrovascular disease
Ruth Namire, R Eugene Ramsey
78. Arteriovenous malformations
SA Tharin, Autumn Klein, Robert Friedlander
79. Cavernous maalformations
Adrian Siegel
80. Other vascular disorders
Leif Gjerstad, Erik Taubøll
Subsection 3.12 – Cerebal immunological disorders
81. Rasmussen encephalitis and related conditions
Antonio Gambardella, Frederick Andermann
82. Systemic lupus erythematosus and other collagen vascular diseases
Rolando Cimaz, Andrea Taddio
83. Inflammatory and immunological diseases of the central nervous system
Michael Lunn
Subsection 3.13 – Other cerebral disorders
84. Psychiatric disorders
Brent Elliott, John O’Donavan
85. Mutiple sclerosis and other acquired demyelinating diseases
Mark Manford
86. Hydrocephalus, porencephaly
Pierangelo Veggiotti, Frederica Teutonico
87. Alzheimer disease and other adult degenerative disorders
Sigmund Jenssen, Kandan Kulanfaivel
Section 4 – Provoked Epilepsies
88. Introduction to the concept of provoked epilepsy
Simon Shorvon, Renzo Guerrini, Frederick Andermann
Subsection 4.1 Precipitating factors
89. Fever
Thomas Bleck
90. The menstrual cycle and catamenial epilepsy
Andrew Herzog
91. Sleep
Liborio Parrino, Giulia Milioli, Fernado De Paolis, Andrea Grassi, Gioia Gioi, Mario Giovanni Terzano
92. Metabolic and endocrine-induced seizures
Bernhard Steinhoff
93. Electrolyte or sugar disturbances
Bindu Menon, Simon Shorvon
94. Drug-induced seizures
Aidan Neligan
95. Alcohol and toxin-induced seizures
Michelle Shapiro, Andrew Cole
Subsection 4.2 – Reflex seizures
96. How reflex mechanisms cause epilepsy
Benjamin Zifkin, Frederick Andermann
97. Visual stimuli, photosensitivity and photosensitive epilepsy
Dorothée KAsteleijn-Nolst Trenité, Laura Cantonetti, Pasquale Parisi
98. Startle-induced (and other sensory induced) epilepsy
Jean-Pierre Vignal , Andrine Aubert, Patrick Chauvel
99. Primary reading epilepsy
Matthias Koepp
100. Auditory-induced epilepsy
Carlo Di Bonaventura, Frederick Andermann
101. Focal reflex seizures – with emphasis on epilepsy triggered by eating
Benjamin Zifkin, Guy Rémillard, Frederick Andermann
102. Hot water epilepsy
P Satischandra, S Sinha, Anuranjan Anand
103. Reflex epilepsy with higher-level processing
Benjamin Zifkin, Frederick Andermann
Section 5 – Status Epilepticus
104. Introduction – how status epilepticus is caused
Karthik Rajasekaran, Howard Goodkin
105. Causes of status epilepticus in children
Rodd Scott
106. The causes of convulsive status epilepticus in adults
Elizabeth Waterhouse, Peter Kaplan
107. Uncommon causes of status epilepticus
Simon Shorvon, Raymond Tan, Aidan Neilgan
108. Causes of non-convulsive status epilepticus in adults
Pierre Thomas
109. Causes of epilepsia partialis continua
Hirokazu Oguni and Frederick Andermann
100. Afterword
Simon Shorvon, Renzo Guerrini, Frederick Andermann