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Edited by Alain Malafosse, Pierre Genton, Edouard Hirsch, Christian Marescaux, Dominique Broglin, and Raymond Bernasconi. 538 pp. London, John Libbey, 1995. £45. ISBN 0-86196-436-5.

Idiopathic. Denoting a disease of unknown cause.

— Stedman's Medical Dictionary

Idiopathic. . . . of a disease; of the nature of a primary morbid state; not consequent upon another disease.

— Oxford Universal Dictionary

Few aspects of modern epileptology have created more confusion in North America than the concept of idiopathic epilepsies as defined in the current International Classification of Epilepsies and Epileptic Syndromes (Commission on Classification and Terminology of the International League against Epilepsy, Epilepsia 1989;30:389-99). According to this classification, idiopathic epilepsies are diseases unto themselves, epilepsies sui generis, and constitute a specific group of primary or essential . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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