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  Epidemiology and Diagnosis of Epilepsy

  By Vinay Kumari, Maya Patlia

  Abstract: Epilepsy is a common neurological disease and has no age, race, social, gender or geographical boundaries. Nearly 5% people in the world may have at least one seizure in their lives. At any point in time, 50 million people have epilepsy, especially in childhood, adolescence and old age. Major problems in epilepsy epidemiology are diagnostic accuracy and case ascertainment. The diagnosis of epilepsy has important physical, psychosocial and economic implications …

  Published in Research and Reviews: A Journal of Neuroscience · Vol. 4, Issue 2, 2014 · pp. 24–33 Read article →