RT Book, Section A1 Ropper, Allan H. A1 Samuels, Martin A. A1 Klein, Joshua P. A1 Prasad, Sashank SR Print(0) ID 1199442790 T1 Epilepsy and Other Seizure Disorders T2 Adams and Victor's Principles of Neurology, 12e YR 2023 FD 2023 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9781264264520 LK neurology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1199442790 RD 2024/03/28 AB The prevalence and importance of epilepsy, recurrent unprovoked seizures, can hardly be overstated. From the epidemiologic studies of Hauser and colleagues, one may extrapolate an incidence of approximately 2 million individuals in the United States who have epilepsy and predict about 44 new cases per 100,000 persons each year. These figures are exclusive of patients in whom seizures transiently complicate febrile and other illnesses or injuries. It has also been estimated that slightly less than 1 percent of persons in the United States will have epilepsy by the age of 20 years (Hauser and Annegers, 1992). Over two-thirds of all epileptic seizures begin in childhood (most in the first year of life), and this is the period when seizures assume the widest array of forms. In the practice of pediatric neurology, epilepsy is one of the most common disorders, and the chronicity of childhood forms adds to their importance. The incidence increases again after age 60 years. For all these reasons, physicians should know something of the nature of seizure disorders and their treatment. It is notable that, in striking contrast to the various treatments available for epilepsy, many persons with epilepsy in the developing world never receive medical attention.