Anoop K. Reddy, M.D.

Epilepsy is brain disorder in which clusters of nerve cells, or neurons, in the brain sometimes signal abnormally. In epilepsy the normal pattern of neuronal activity becomes disturbed, causing strange sensations, emotions and behaviors, or sometimes convulsions, muscle spasms and loss of consciousness. About 1 in 100 people have experienced an unprovoked seizure or been diagnosed with epilepsy. Only when a person has had two or more seizures are they considered to have epilepsy.

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