Clinical tips: epilepsy explained

Epilepsy: by Associate Professor Louis Roller, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University Epilepsy is defined as a chronic seizure disorder, or group of disorders, characterised by seizures that usually recur unpredictably in the absence of a consistent provoking factor. Seizures are characterised by an excessive, hypersynchronous discharge of cortical neurone activity, which can