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Epilepsy is not a disease: proposal for a new approch in the international classification of diseases (ICD)
Full text linkEpilepsy is a disease!
No full textAccording 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)
