title: [Definitively: epilepsy is not a disease].
abstract: The author analyses past concepts which still hold good today. Such concepts regard epilepsy as a mental disease and the epileptic is usually taken as someone suffering from a severe mental disorder, tending to criminal behaviour. The author proves, taking into account various statements from prominent personalities in the scientific world, that epilepsy is neither a mental disease nor a disease in its own sense, and that the epileptic has not an aggressive behaviour.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brasil.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Filgueiras
mesh_terms: D000374:Aggression; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000145:classification* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans
vernacular_title: Definitivamente: epilepsia não é doença.