Genuine epilepsy

Japanese: genuine epilepsy(英語表記)genuineepilepsy
Genuine epilepsy

...Hippocrates emphasized that although this was a strange disease, it was not caused by a ``spirit'' or ``divine action'' but was due to natural causes, like many other diseases.He criticized the sorcerers for deifying the disease and claimed that the disease originated in the brain.
[Classification by etiology]
There are two types of epilepsy: genuine epilepsy, which is mainly caused by predisposing factors, and symptomatic epilepsy, which is caused by organic brain damage. Even in the symptomatic case, some people develop epilepsy due to the same degree of brain damage, while others do not, and genetic predisposition plays a role to some extent in developing epilepsy.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "genuine epilepsy" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…ヒッポクラテスは,この病気が奇態な病気ではあるが,〈つきもの〉あるいは〈神業〉によって生ずるものではなく,他のいろいろの病気と同じく自然的原因によるものであることを強調して,呪術師たちがこの病気を神聖化して取り扱うのを非難し,この病気が脳に発することを唱えた。
【病因による分類】
 主として素因に由来する真性癲癇genuine epilepsyと脳器質障害による症候性癲癇symptomatic epilepsyがある。症候性の場合も,同程度の脳障害によって癲癇になる人とならない人があって,癲癇になるには,ある程度遺伝的素因が関与する。…

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