Epilepsy is a disease!
According 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 Internatio...
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| Main Author: | Walter Oleschko Arruda |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Thieme Revinter Publicações
1994-12-01
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| Series: | Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X1994000400025&lng=en&tlng=en |
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