1. Epilepsy : Complications  (Trust Mark: Doctor-Reviewed)
Difficulty learning; Inhaling fluid into the lungs, which can cause aspiration pneumonia; Injury from falls, bumps, or self-inflicted bites during a seizure; Injury from having a seizure while driving or operating machinery; Many epilepsy medicati...• Reviewer: Reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc., and David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine. Previously reviewed by Daniel B. Hoch, PhD, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital. (6/19/08)

2. Epilepsy  (Trust Mark: Doctor-Reviewed)
The words "epilepsy" and "epileptic" are of Greek origin and have the same root as the verb "epilambanein," which means "to seize" or "to attack." Therefore, epilepsy means seizure, while epileptic means seized. In the modern understanding of epil...• Author: Roy Sucholeiki MD