Epilepsy seizure is a nerve disorder?

Answer 1

The short answer is Yes. The long answer has to do with uncontrolled firing of neurons which interfere with the normal pathways in the brain. The epilepsy foundation has a great website if you want to know a lot more about it.

Answer 2

No, epilepsy originates in the brain in all cases. Different forms of epilepsy have different loci where brain neurons begin the misfiring that causes the seizure. From that originating locus the misfiring typically spreads out until much or all of the brain becomes involved in the seizure.

Some forms of epilepsy are degenerative, some are not. But the cause and origin is always in the brain. If the form of epilepsy is degenerative, the degeneration of tissue will be in the brain.

Answer 3

No, it is not a disease of the peripheral nervous system but of the central nervous system, mainly the brain. It seems to be located, in many cases, in the temporal lobe and sometimes in the frontal lobe of the brain.

As to being a degenerative disease, the cause of temporal lobe seizures remains unknown.

However, they can be a result of a number of factors, including:

•Traumatic brain injury
•Infections, such as encephalitis or meningitis, or history of such infections
•A process that causes scarring (gliosis) in a part of the temporal lobe called the hippocampus
•Blood vessel malformations in the brain
•Stroke
•Brain tumors
•Genetic syndromes

Answer 4

Epilepsy or seizures occur in the brain. They are caused by brain damage. Sometimes epilepsy is cured by surgically removing scars from the brain. Sometimes it is controlled by medicine.

Answer 5

Not as such. Epilepsy affects the brain. This is turn affects the nervous system.

Answer 6

No it is not.