Ereptogenesis And The Mechanisms Of Epileptic Seizure

Epilepsy has many causes both inherited and acquired. The mechanisms by which normal brain becomes epileptic are diverse and it usually affects people predisposed to seizures due to a chronic pathological state (brain tumour, cerebral dysgenesis, posttraumatic scar, infection, genetic predisposition or a combination of mentioned states). Epileptogenesis refers to the chain of events causing the healthy brain to transform into being capable of producing epileptic seizures. It is usually explained by the two hit hypothesis, with the first hit (usually a trauma or stroke – an initial insult) and the first epileptic seizure as a second hit. The time period between those two is a latent period when several pathological processes take place that