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Epilepsy has many faces: convulsions, a few seconds of “absence” or unusual behaviour at night. That is why an accurate diagnosis matters most.
Epilepsy in plain language
Educational videos
Epilepsy explained simply. Videos by Michalina Malec-Litwinowicz, MD, PhD.
A seizure does not always mean epilepsy
About 10% of people may have one seizure in their life without having epilepsy. A diagnosis needs at least 2 similar episodes more than 24 hours apart.
What is an epileptic seizure?
A seizure is not only what witnesses see. It can be a sensation invisible from the outside, caused by abnormally synchronised discharges of brain neurons.
What is epilepsy? One seizure is not yet epilepsy
Epilepsy is a brain disease whose symptoms recur as seizures. After one seizure we speak of a first seizure; epilepsy is diagnosed after at least two.
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