The Pros And Cons Of Epilepsy

Epilepsy is the second most common disorder of the brain, that affects approximately 1% of the world’s population. The burden of epileptic disorders is increasing in the developing countries, where patients in rural areas find it difficult to get easy access to the expert neurologists [19]. The situation worsens due to the fact that about 40% of all individuals with epilepsy are suffering from a condition where a single type of AED fails to completely control seizures. Epilepsy makes it difficult for patients to live a normal life because of unpredictability of seizure occurrence. Thus the most common treatment option of AEDs proves ineffective due to variations in seizure types and occurrence time in individual. These seizures put serious limitations on day-to-day activities of an individual’s life on social and financial fronts. The difficulty in social involvement of epilepsy affected individuals are often more difficult to overcome than the seizures themselves. An individual affected by epilepsy is …show more content…
However, the EEG has a number of limitations. the propagation of this combined electrical activity along the entire structure may give a deceptive about the location of the electrical activity source. This is due to the fact that the EEG signals represent a summation of excitatory and inhibitory postsynaptic potentials in apical dendrites of neurons in the surface layers of the cortex. The cortical sources of many normal and abnormal cortical behaviors included in the EEG are so far mostly unknown. If inappropriate information is extracted from the recorded EEG, there is always a possibility of diagnostic errors. This yields a poor information used in the supervision of patients with seizure disorders. It is crucial to note that a normal EEG can represent an epileptic seizure and as around 10% of patients with epilepsy never show epileptic signals in