Author name: Lisa Kiarie

Epilepsy is a central nervous system (neurological) disorder in which brain activity becomesabnormal, causing seizures or periods of unusual behavior, sensations, and sometimes loss ofawareness. Anyone can develop epilepsy. ( www.mayoclinic.org › epilepsy › symptoms-causes ›syc-20350093.)Epilepsy is a condition in which a person has recurrent seizures. A seizure is defined as anabnormal, disorderly discharging of the brain’s nerve cells, resulting in

Being an individual living with epilepsy, the one question I get a lot is “what is epilepsy?” The scientific definition is a chronic neurologic disorder with many possible causes and causes include illness, to brain damage, to abnormal brain development which causes seizures. A seizure is a sudden surge of electrical activity in the brain. Seizures

Epilepsy is one of the highly misunderstood conditions in society. Individuals with epilepsy often go through difficult times. The one question is always consistent; what is epilepsy? Although many times people have thought it to be a cultural misfortune of some sort where the affected party is possessed by evil spirits, epilepsy is a chronic disorder that