Epilepsy is a disease of the head nervous system that can cause great confusion to patients. There are many types of epilepsy, with complex causes, both congenital and acquired, and treatment is also relatively difficult. So, what types of epilepsy are there, and I will introduce them to you below, hoping to be of some help to you.

Symptomatic epilepsy

Central nervous system diseases affect structure or function, such as chromosomal abnormalities, focal or diffuse brain diseases, and some specific diseases caused by them.

(1) Local or diffuse brain diseases caused by various causes during the process of congenital malformation, such as brain dysgenesis, microcephaly, congenital hydrocephalus, leukodystrophy, and malformation of the cerebral cortex, perinatal fetal brain injury, etc.; secondary brain injury due to blood, such as brain trauma, craniotomy, post-stroke, post-infection of the brain, subacute alcoholism; complications of neonatal asphyxia, the incidence of neonatal epilepsy is about 1%, and multiple injuries during childbirth are often accompanied by intracranial hemorrhage or hypoxia injury, neonates with congenital malformation or injury, the incidence of epilepsy reaches 25%; heavy load inflammatory diseases include central nervous system bacteria, viruses, bacteria, sparganosis, cocci infection, and AIDS central nervous system complications; cerebral vascular diseases such as cerebral arteriovenous malformation, cerebral infarction, and cerebral hemorrhage; primary brain tumors such as gliomas, meningiomas; chondrogenic genetic metabolic diseases such as tuberous sclerosis, brain-facial vascular malformation, phenylketonuria, etc.; recombinant central nervous system degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, Pick’s disease, about 1/3 of patients have seizures.

(2) Specific diseases such as hypoxic encephalopathy caused by cardiovascular diseases such as sudden cardiac arrest, CO poisoning asphyxia, anesthesia accidents, and respiratory failure can cause myoclonic seizures or generalized tonic-clonic seizures; metabolic encephalopathy such as hypoglycemia, which most commonly causes metabolic and endocrine disorders such as hyperglycemia, hypocalcemia, hyponatremia, as well as uremia, hepatic encephalopathy, and thyroid toxicosis, can also cause seizures; cardiovascular diseases such as sudden cardiac arrest and hypertensive encephalopathy; heat-related convulsive diseases caused by heavy loads can lead to hippocampal sclerosis, which is a secondary generalized onset of temporal lobe epilepsy and becomes a key cause of intractable epilepsy; postpartum eclampsia; tube poisoning such as alcohol, isoniazid, carbamazepine, and heavy metals such as lead and thallium.

Idiopathic epilepsy

It is more common, and clinical symptoms suggest symptomatic epilepsy, but no definitive cause can be found, which can occur in a particular age group without special clinical or EEG manifestations.

Intractable epilepsy

There are no other significant causes of abnormal gene inheritance trends, which often occur in a particular age group, with atypical clinical and electroencephalogram (EEG) manifestations, and diagnosis is relatively certain.

This is a detailed introduction to various types of epilepsy, and it is not clear whether everyone has a little understanding. In general, the causes of epilepsy are numerous and very complex, so it is recommended that everyone must pay attention to their own health status, seek treatment as soon as possible, and never delay their condition, allowing the condition to worsen.