Stabilizing Epilepsy

When clusters of nerve cells in the brain send the wrong signals, a person may have strange sensations and emotions, behave oddly, or have violent muscle spasms or lose consciousness—this is called a seizure [see-zher]. Epilepsy [ep-ih-lep-see] is a brain disorder that causes seizures to recur (occur more than once). In the U.S., 1 in 100 people may experience a seizure once in their lifetime; however, having 1 seizure does not mean you have epilepsy.