Epilepsy Had in the antiquity as illness spiritual, that is, caused for divine curse, morbus was called “to sacer”. In the
average age she was frequent disease in the Europe. In this period of history it received the name from “badly comicial”, why the crises if unchained during the assemblies, at the moment where the patient raised the arms, she is defined as brusque, uncontrollable event, of muscular movements of the type contraction and relaxation in the form of abalos with total loss of the conciência in consequência of abnormal eletroencefálicas discharges. Currently investigaçõse on the illness advances of
impresionante form. Already if it obtains an expressive mark of 85% of controlled cases. All the moment appears new therapeutical proposals for the illness. With the development of microsurgery, many forms of epilepsy are being treated surgically, with high index of cure. average age she was frequent disease in the Europe. In this period of history it received the name from “badly comicial”, why the crises if unchained during the assemblies, at the moment where the patient raised the arms, she is defined as brusque, uncontrollable event, of muscular movements of the type contraction and relaxation in the form of abalos with total loss of the conciência in consequência of abnormal eletroencefálicas discharges. Currently investigaçõse on the illness advances of impresionante form. Already if it obtains an expressive mark of 85% of controlled cases. All the moment appears new therapeutical proposals for the illness. With the development of microsurgery, many forms of epilepsy are being treated surgically, with high index of cure.