A Brief Overview of Epilepsy

Vikash Kumar Chaudhari*¹, ²Pushpendra Kumar, ³Vijay Yadav, ⁴Devender Pathak, ⁵Zeashan Hussain
^1,5Dept. of Pharmacy, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Pharmacy, Lucknow-227101, Uttar Pradesh, India
^2,4Pharmacy College Saifai, UP RIMS & R, Saifai, Saifai, Etawah-206130, Uttar Pradesh, India.
³Dept. of Pharmacy, Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar University, Agra-282004, Uttar Pradesh, India.

A B S T R A C T
Epilepsy is a group of neurological diseases characterized by epileptic seizures. Epileptic seizures are episodes that can vary from brief and nearly undetectable to long periods of vigorous shaking. In epilepsy, seizures tend to recur, and have no immediate underlying cause while seizures that occur due to a specific cause are not deemed to represent epilepsy. The cause of most cases of epilepsy is unknown, although some people develop epilepsy as the result of brain injury, stroke, brain tumors, and substance use disorders.
Keywords: Epilepsy, neurological disease, seizures.