The causes of<unk>  include mesial<unk>  sclerosis, traumatic brain injury, brain infections, such as encephalitis and meningitis, hypoxic brain injury, stroke, cerebral tumours, and genetic syndromes.<unk>  is not the result of psychiatric illness or fragility of the personality. Febrile seizures Although the theory is controversial, there is a link between febrile seizures (seizures coinciding with episodes of fever in young children) and subsequent<unk> , at least epidemiologically. Human herpes virus 6 Reelin In the mid 1980s, human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) was suggested as a possible causal link between febrile convulsions and mesial<unk> . However, although the virus is found in<unk> <unk>  tissue at surgery for<unk> , it has not been recognised as a major factor in febrile seizures or<unk> . Reelin Dispersion of the granule cell layer in the hippocampal dentate gyrus is occasionally seen in<unk>  and has been linked to the downregulation of reelin, a protein that normally keeps the layer compact by containing neuronal migration. It is unknown whether changes in reelin expression play a role in epilepsy.
Temporal lobe epilepsy
Frontal lobe epilepsy
Generalized epilepsy
Musicogenic epilepsy
Childhood absence epilepsy
Photosensitive epilepsy
Catamenial epilepsy
Northern epilepsy syndrome