Epilepsy is a disease!

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Walter Oleschko Arruda¹ 

[1] ,Unidade de Ciências NeurológicasCuritiba

关键词: epilepsy;    disease;    symptom;    syndrome;    epilepsia;    doença;    sintoma;    síndrome;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0004-282X1994000400025

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

According to the definition of disease, epilepsy shall not be considered neither a symptom nor a syndrome. Epilepsy is a generic term for a group of diseases characterized by seizures. It implies a state quite distinct from health. Therefore it seems worthy to keep epilepsy as such in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD).

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