Essay On Epilepsy

Epilepsy is a neurological condition that effects the nervous system causing seizures. A seizure is abnormal discharge of neurons, causing a sudden surge of electrical activity in the brain. Anyone can develop seizures and Epilepsy it just depends on if they have the necessary activators or stimilant to start it off. The first electrical theory of epilepsy was described by Robert Bentely Todd in 1849 during his Lumleian lectures he delivered to the Royal College of Physicians in London, England. Seizures are broken off into two types referred to as partial seizures and general seizures, within these two types there are over 40 different sub types of seizures. The three sub types of partial seizures are simple partial, complex partial, and partial seizures that secondarily …show more content…
1 in 26 Americans will develop epilepsy during their life time, new cases are most common in children during the first year and goes down steddily until about 10 years of age and then becomes stable, after the age of 55 the rate increases again once people start to develop stokes, azteimer disease, and brain tumors. The interesting thing about epilepsy is that it is the fourth most common neurological disorder in the world, with it being common it can be thought that there would be a lot of research and information about the cause and treatment for this condition. The truth of the matter is that it is that exact opposite, scientists and researchers have discovered what happens during a seizure and some of the things that trigger them but it is still a mystery what the true underlying cause of electrical storms in the brain, there is also not a lot of information about the affects that seizures have on other parts of the body in the long term, and there is not a single type of treatment for the seizures and none of the treatments cure seizures long