Reflex epilepsies can provide qualitative and quantitative insights into the complexities of ictogenesis. This is what the chapters of this book are about, dealing with such varied modes of precipitation as hot water, eating, touch and movement, music, and emotions. The relation of several reflex epileptic mechanisms to Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy is discussed as well as the meaning of their occurrence across syndromes for our present nosological understanding of epilepsy. Our traditional dichotomy seems out-dated as functional studies of trigger mechanisms rather point to central nervous subsystems acting as pathological networks generating seizures in both generalised and localisation-related epilepsies. This book makes the point on research for a better comprehension of the current nosology of the epilepsy. A reference work written by the best international specialists in epilepsy.

• Evidence of reflex epilepsy on functional systems in the brain and "generalised" epilepsy
• Varieties of photosensitivity in man ("plain" and progressive myoclonus epilepsies), in baboon and fowl
• Prevention of photosensitive seizures by optical filters
• Praxis induction and thinking induction: one or two mechanisms? A controversy
• Perioral reflex myoclonias in reading epilepsy and juvenile myoclonic epilepsy
• Fuctional imaging in reading epilepsy
• Musicogenic seizures and findings on the anatomy of musical perception
• Emotional seizure precipitation and psychogenic epileptic seizures
• Trigger mechanisms in hot-water epilepsy
• Reflex epileptic seizures in infancy
• Seizures induced by eating in a family
• Motor reflex epilepsy induced by touch and movement
• Malformations of cortical development as a cause of reflex seizures: neurobiological insights