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  2. List of people with epilepsy - Wikipedia

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    In his Treatise on Epilepsy, the French 17th century physician Jean Taxil refers to Aristotle 's "famous epileptics". This list includes Heracles, Ajax, Bellerophon, Socrates, Plato, Empedocles, Maracus of Syracuse, and the Sibyls. [1] However, historian of medicine Owsei Temkin argues that Aristotle had in fact made a list of melancholics and ...

  3. Photosensitive epilepsy - Wikipedia

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    Photosensitive epilepsy (PSE) is a form of epilepsy in which seizures are triggered by visual stimuli that form patterns in time or space, such as flashing lights, bold, regular patterns, or regular moving patterns. PSE affects approximately one in 4,000 people (5% of those with epilepsy).

  4. Epilepsy syndromes - Wikipedia

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    An epilepsy syndrome is defined as "a characteristic cluster of clinical and Electroencephalography (EEG) features, often supported by specific etiological findings (structural, genetic, metabolic, immune, and infectious)." [1] Syndromes are characterized by seizure types and specific findings on EEGs. Epilepsy syndromes often begin, and may ...

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    The Epilepsy Agency of the Big Bend (EABB) in Florida works to reduce barriers to care for those whose lives are affected by epilepsy, particularly individuals and families experiencing poverty.

  6. Epilepsy in children - Wikipedia

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    Epilepsy is a neurological condition of recurrent episodes of unprovoked epileptic seizures. A seizure is an abnormal neuronal brain activity that can cause intellectual, emotional, and social consequences. Epilepsy affects children and adults of all ages and races, and is one of the most common neurological disorders of the nervous system. [1]

  7. Epilepsy - Wikipedia

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    Epilepsy is a group of non-communicable neurological disorders characterized by recurrent epileptic seizures. [10] An epileptic seizure is the clinical manifestation of an abnormal, excessive, and synchronized electrical discharge in the neurons. [1]