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Overview, Incidence and Prevalence, Phases, Types

Post a new topicby contentuser on Wed Dec 26, 2007 10:26 am


Overview


Epilepsy is a chronic neurological condition characterized by recurrent seizures that are caused by abnormal cerebral nerve cell activity. There is a distinction between a patient who has one seizure and a patient who has epilepsy. Epilepsy can be classified as either idiopathic or symptomatic.


Idiopathic epilepsy has no known cause, and the person has no other signs of neurological disease or mental deficiency. Symptomatic epilepsy results from a known condition, such as str...Read the full article

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