According to the international classification valid until last year, symptomatic or secondary, caused by defeat of brain structures, idiopathic, primary (independent, presumably hereditary disease) and cryptogenic epilepsy were isolated.
Modern research has shown that polytherapy with several drugs in small doses did not justify itself. Selection of the drug is strictly in accordance with the type of epilepsy and the type of epileptic fit.
This medical conclusion is not a definitive diagnosis, the symptomatology can change with age and evolve into an already known form, and also - regress.
Without taking into account pathogenetic factors, many continue to call it neuritis, and ICD-10 on the basis of anatomical and topographic features of the disease refers it to mono-neuropathies of the upper extremities with code G56.0-G56.1.
This is not a disease, but a whole complex of pathological and physiologically inadequate reactions of the brain to various environmental factors. The person experiences discomfort.
There are numerous transformations, as well as functional changes. Myelin fibers and axial cylinders also undergo changes. It is a serious problem with which modern neurology is increasingly faced.
Among the numerous varieties of epilepsy - a chronic CNS disorder with a paroxysmal manifestation of symptoms - temporal epilepsy is distinguished in which epileptogenic zones or areas of local attachment of epileptic activity are found in the temporal lobes of the brain.
