What kind of illness is epilepsy?
It is a brain disease that causes repeated seizures, regardless of age, gender, or race. At the World Health Organization (WHO), epilepsy is a "chronic disorder of the brain" characterized by repeated seizures caused by sudden, intense electrical excitement in nerve cells (neurons) in the brain, with various clinical symptoms and tests. It is defined as an illness with abnormalities. About 10% of the population will have one seizure throughout their lives, about 4% will have more than one seizure, of which about 1% will be diagnosed with "epilepsy", and about 1 million epilepsy patients in Japan. Exists. Epileptic seizures vary depending on where the electrical excitement of the cerebrum occurs, but the symptoms of the seizures are almost constant for each patient and are characterized by repeated seizures. In addition, since the electric current in the brain is disturbed during an attack, abnormal waves (spike waves / kokuha) appear when the brain waves are measur...