What do these famous figures all have in common:  Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Vincent Van Gogh? The answer is they all had epilepsy. Epilepsy is one of the most common serious neurological conditions in the world, but not many people even know what epilepsy is, or how to treat it. What is epilepsy? Also, how can it be treated?

First off, what is epilepsy?

Epilepsy is the tendency to have repeated seizures that begin in the brain. Anybody can develop epilepsy, it occurs in people of all ages, races, and social classes. The exact reason why someone has developed epilepsy is not very straightforward, and there can be numerous possible causes for it. But whatever the reason, a person’s seizure threshold can play a key role. A person’s
seizure threshold is their individual level of tolerance, or resistance, to seizures. Everyone’s brain has the ability to produce a seizure under the right conditions.

Epilepsy is diagnosed on the basis of two or more epileptic seizures, however epilepsy can be very difficult to diagnose. There are no tests that can say for certain if a person has epilepsy,
although the most likely cause of the seizures may be found by
collecting groups of information from the tests, and talking to eye
witnesses of the seizures about what happened. The person who had the seizure may not recollect much about it. This could be because they were unconscious at the time or extremely confused afterwards. Therefore, it can be exceptionally helpful to get information about what happened from someone who saw the seizure.

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