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With epilepsy, neurons in the brain send abnormal signals, causing seizures.

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The major epilepsy treatments are medication and surgery.

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People with epilepsy can have seizures on one side of the brain, called a focal seizure, or affecting the whole brain, called a generalized seizure. If a patient with epilepsy has ...

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In the United States, about two million people have epilepsy, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. With epilepsy, neurons in the brain send abnormal signals, ...

A neurological condition in which a patient has two or more unprovoked seizures, epilepsy affects about 50 million people worldwide, and about 3 million in the United States, according ...

An estimated two million people in the United States have epilepsy, a neurological condition in which the patient has recurrent seizures, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

In 2010, an estimated 140,000 people in the United States were diagnosed with epilepsy, noted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.