Epilepsy

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Epilepsy is a neurologic disorder that affects 2.5 million people in the United States and is characterized by recurrent epileptic seizures. An epileptic seizure occurs when there is an abnormal electrical discharge in brain cells. Symptoms of a seizure may vary from an unusual sensation, confusion, loss of consciousness or awareness, to shaking in a limb or generalized body shaking (convulsion).

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