Advances in understanding the pathogenesis of epilepsy: Unraveling the molecular mechanisms SHARIFF et al.

Abstract

1## INTRODUCTION The medical condition of epilepsy is characterized by two or more seizure episodes and uncontrolled and unprovoked firing of the brain neurons. This chronic disease is noncommunicable, and it affects an estimated number of 50 million people, all ages included, globally., Seizures result from inadequate or excessive firing of the neurons, and this culminates in the inability of the brain to coordinate the rest of the human body. It affects processes such as limb as well as bowel movements and may take a varying frequency from several seizures per day to less than one per year.