TTTEpilepsy is a brain neurological disorder resulting in epileptic seizures, caused by the transient abnormal functioning of brain nerve cells (neurons).
This excessive and simultaneous functioning of the neurons results in sudden “electric” discharges, epileptic discharges, which translate clinically into epileptic seizures.
We should talk about epilepsies, because many causes, many cerebral diseases, are at the origin of epilepsy which results in the repetition of epileptic seizures.
Having an epileptic seizure does not necessarily mean that you have epilepsy. Epilepsy is defined by the occurrence of REPEATED seizures, which occur more or less frequently and over a longer or shorter period of time in an individual’s life.
All the details can be found on Epilepsy France website