Epilepsy is the most common serious brain disorder.

 The condition encompasses a range of functional disorders of the brain,

 The common characteristic of which is a series of repetitive unprovoked seizures.

Epilepsy is caused by abnormal excessive electric discharges that occur in the

Nerve cells of the brain.

These seizures are non-specific responses of the brain to all kinds of insults.

There are many different types of seizure.

 Most epileptic seizures last somewhere between a few seconds and a few minutes.

These may be single and isolated or may occur in a series of seizures.