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About Epilepsy
What is Epilepsy
Epilepsy is a common condition of the brain affecting about 1 in every 200 people (about 50 million people world wide) as a result of a a temporary disturbance of the brain's electrical activity (called a seizure).Read more
Types of Seizure
There are two main types of seizure; Partial Seizures - affecting a part of the brain and Generalised Seizures affecting the whole brain. The symptoms experienced by a person during a seizure depend on the part of the brain that is affected.Read more
Attitudes to Epilepsy
A short history of epilepsy and the attitudes to epilepsy as scientific and medical discoveries lead to better understanding of how our brains work.Read more