Epilepsy (from Ancient Greek ἐπιληψία), is a common and diverse set of chronic neurological disorders characterized by seizures. Some definitions of epilepsy require that seizures be recurrent and unprovoked, but others require only a single seizure combined with brain alterations which increase the chance of future seizures.
Epileptic seizures result from abnormal, excessive or hypersynchronous neuronal activity in the brain. About 50 million pe...
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Parent Disease:
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- Epilepsy Action ,
- Epilepsy Foundation of Vermont ,
- Epilepsy Research Foundation ,
- National Society for Epilepsy ,
- Epilepsy Action Australia ,
- David Lewis Centre ,
- Comprehensive Epilepsy Center
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Also known as:
- Seizure disorder,
- Childhood epilepsy
