Epilepsy Disease is known as one of the oldest diseases in the world (2000 years BC), and second of neurological disease after brain circulatory disorders.
Although epilepsy disease has long been known to the public, but the understanding of this disease is still lacking, and sometimes wrong, so the disease is often classified as madness, a curse or a derivative. As a result, patients are not treated or even hidden. Many people with undiagnosed epilepsy. They often receive inappropriate treatment that affected the clinical and psychosocial harm, both for patients and their families.
Epilepsy is a epileptic seizure disorder is the manifestation of the brain with a variety of clinical symptoms. Epilepsy is caused by loss of brain neurons and periodically excessively but reversible with various etiologies.
Epilepsy disease is clinically difficult to define. This is due to the highly variable clinical manifestations, ranging from generalized seizures, focal seizures, loss of consciousness, behavior disorders, up to the clinical manifestations of strange backgrounds are difficult to understand. Principles which must be held is the occurrence of repeated attacks on the same pattern, regardless of place, time and circumstances.
