What are the main causes of epilepsy?

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Dr Chandra P

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"Possible causes include: traumatic brain injury, scarring on the brain after a brain injury (post-traumatic epilepsy),serious illness or very high fever, other vascular diseases,lack of oxygen to the brain,brain tumor or cyst,dementia or Alzheimerâ€™s disease,maternal drug use, prenatal injury, brain malformation, or lack of oxygen at birth,infectious diseases such as AIDS and meningitis, genetic or developmental disorders or neurological diseases."

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