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Epilepsy myths we need to debunk right now
Seizures and epilepsy are one of the longest documented conditions. I’m talking all the way back to 2500bc!! In 400bc, hippocrates noted in his “on the sacred disease” that epilepsy is not caused by angry gods, and he even accused healers who gave epilepsy this “sacred” status were fraudulent. The text stated that the brain was the source of the disease. And while the understanding of what epilepsy is and how it is perceived has changed over time, somehow some myths and consp
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Oct 312 min read
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