Treatment of Epilepsy

Abstract

Epilepsy is best studied as a symptom of brain disease rather than as a disease in itself. The diagnosis of the seizure depends on witnessing an attack or obtaining an adequate history of such seizures. For proper handling of causes, social management and treatment of the patient, it is useful to classify the seizure by its clinical symptoms and to describe it as grand mal, petit mal or focal. Therapy is aimed at control of seizures, and may be achieved by psychologic, medical, dietary and surgical methods.