... and actions of glands and muscles, becomes disturbed and as a result strange behavior, convulsions and loss of consciousness might occur. Epilepsy knows no geographical, racial or social boundaries. It occurs in men and women and can begin at any age, but is most frequently diagnosed in childhood or old age. Anyone can be affected by seizures. In fact, up to 5% of the world's population may have a single seizure at some time in their lives, but a person might be diagnosed with epilepsy only after they had two unprovoked seizures. From many studies around the world it has been estimated that the mean prevalence (proportion of a population with that disorder at a given point in time) of active epilepsy is approximately 8.2 per 1,000 of the general population, however, this may be an underestimate. Epilepsy is the disorder with many possible causes. Anything from a mild illness ...

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