What IS Epilepsy?

Education: Broadly speaking, epilepsy is a disruption in normal neuron patterns. When the brain?s nerve cells signal abnormally, they can cause strange sensations and emotions as well as convulsions, seizures, spasms?even loss of consciousness.4 Normal neuron activity can be disrupted by many things, including illness and abnormal brain development or brain damage.4




What causes epilepsy?Epilepsy has no single cause. The electrical events that cause abnormal brain function are usually not identifiable?they can be caused by head injuries,abuse, accidents, tumors, lack of oxygen during birth, lead poisoning, early brain development and brain infections such as meningitis or encephalitis. The severity of the damage, its location and duration also may be significant