Explanation

Epilepsy is what you get if the neurons in your brain start sending lots of mixed up messages. This causes an electrical storm in your brain, which makes your body do things it's not meant to do, like shake, or go stiff. This is called a seizure. Seizures are the main symptoms of epilepsy. A seizure is what happens when the neurons in your brain start extra zapping and giving your body messages to do things that it's not meant to be doing, like moving around all over the place, or staring off into space. You have seizures if you have epilepsy, but if you only have one seizure in your life, you may not have epilepsy.

Seizures can be generalised seizures or focal seizures and some people get a weird feeling called an aura just before having one. Sometimes seizures can become status epilepticus.