title: Epilepsy is a disease!
abstract: According to the definition of disease, epilepsy shall not be considered neither a symptom nor a syndrome. Epilepsy is a generic term for a group of diseases characterized by seizures. It implies a state quite distinct from health. Therefore it seems worthy to keep epilepsy as such in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD).
authors.affiliation: Neurologista, Unidade de Ciências Neurológicas, Curitiba, Brasil.
authors.forename: W O
authors.initials: WO
authors.lastname: Arruda
mesh_terms: D004827:Epilepsy / Q000145:classification; D006801:Humans